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Claim · claim:salinity-drives-capmix

Salinity gradient —drives→ Capacitive mixing

The atlas records this claim as demonstrated: a salinity gradient drives capacitive mixing under the conditions below.

demonstratedK5 · energy harvestedledger chemical → electrical · loss to thermalno record-level review date

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1cited sources1enumerated routes using it1routes with composition evidence1recorded pathways

Conditions

  • porous carbon electrodes charged in salt water and discharged in fresh water in a four-step cycle
regime: aqueous medium required · liquid

Evidence · 1

  1. [1]
    D. Brogioli. Extracting renewable energy from a salinity difference using a capacitor (2009)
    Physical Review Letters 103, 058501 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.058501 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record

Matrix cells this relation feeds

D = disequilibrium row · C = coupling family column. A cell reads the state of the atlas for that pair.

D.04 × C.22 · Salinity gradient × Osmotic / salinity-gradient · Established
family: Osmotic / salinity-gradient

Uses of this claim

recorded pathways · 1

Notes

One primary experiment on record in this atlas; later replications exist in the literature but are not yet recorded here.

Cite this claim

Physical Transformation Atlas (2026). claim claim:salinity-drives-capmix: Salinity gradient —drives→ Capacitive mixing. Dataset revision rbfbfcbb70e57 (hash of the canonical data). https://physical-transformation-atlas.wldud5192.workers.dev/claim/salinity-drives-capmix

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