Righi-Leduc effect

noun

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: a transverse temperature gradient observed in a metal when the metal is in a magnetic field whose lines of force are perpendicular to the heat flux

called also Leduc effect

Word History

Etymology

after Augusto Righi †1920 Italian physicist and Sylvestre Anatole Leduc, 20th century French physicist

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