Abstract
AT low frequencies transverse waves can be propagated through a conducting liquid, situated in a magnetic field, as was first shown by H. Alfvén1 and verified by S. Lundquist2 in a laboratory experiment. The waves, as obtained by the reciprocal action between electric currents and motion of the liquid, were called magneto-hydrodynamic waves.
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Alfvén, H., “Cosmical Electrodynamics”, 76 (Oxford, 1950).
Lundquist, S., Phys. Rev., 76, 1805 (1949).
Herlofson, N., Nature (see following communication).
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ÅSTRÖM, E. Magneto-Hydrodynamic Waves in a Plasma. Nature 165, 1019–1020 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/1651019b0
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