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I HAVE obtained the absolute thermoelectric power of lead between 10 and 350 K by direct measurement of the Thomson heat for the first time. Above 20 K the values are higher than the present scale by up to 0.30 µV K−1. Acceptance of the new values would require the recalculation of the thermopowers of almost all metals, since lead was almost certainly the reference material for the thermocouple measurements which were used to determine them. The size of the correction makes it particularly significant for the theoretical interpretation of the thermopowers of many metals and alloys.
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ROBERTS, R. Absolute scale of thermoelectricity. Nature 265, 226–227 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/265226a0
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