ESR Study of the Dynamic Molecular Structure of a Reentrant Nematic Liquid Crystalt
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obtained here; and (3) the Soret coefficient u* obtained in TGTD experiments on electrolyte solutions differs from the Soret coefficient u obtained in nonelectrolyte mixtures as discussed at the end of section 3. These results agree in form with the results for nonelectrolytes.6 The important new features for electrolytes are (1) the present approach is considerably improved in simplicity and accuracy over the previous approach; (2) an explicit formula c2 itself has been
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