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Conductivity and Thermo-Electric Power of Selenium Single Crystals

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SELENIUM single crystals have been grown in this Laboratory from the vapour phase by the method used by Brown1 and de Boer2. Although the needles, which had a regular prismatic appearance, were generally hollow, several specimens had solid portions up to 1 cm. long. Rotating-crystal X-ray diffraction photographs indicated single crystals.

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PLESSNER, K. Conductivity and Thermo-Electric Power of Selenium Single Crystals. Nature 165, 970–971 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165970b0

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