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Temperature gradient —drives→ Thomson effect

The atlas records this claim as established: a temperature gradient drives the thomson effect under the conditions below.

establishedledger thermal → thermalno record-level review date

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Conditions

  • a current flowing along a temperature gradient in a single conductor
regime: solid · conductor required

Evidence · 2

  1. [1]
    W. Thomson. On a mechanical theory of thermo-electric currents (1851)
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 3, 91–98 · doi:10.1017/S0370164600027310 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record
  2. [2]
    H. B. Callen. The application of Onsager's reciprocal relations to thermoelectric, thermomagnetic, and galvanomagnetic effects (1948)
    Physical Review 73, 1349 · doi:10.1103/PhysRev.73.1349 · 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.01 × C.01 · Temperature gradient × Thermoelectric · Established
family: Thermoelectric

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