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Many readers will no doubt have observed that the concepts of particle-diffusion force and gained energy, which were put forward recently1 under the above title in these columns, are long familiar in the field of irreversible thermodynamics.
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PIKE, E. A Fundamental Extension of Einstein's Diffusion–Mobility Relationship. Nature 199, 994 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199994b0
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