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Transfer Effect in Liquid Helium II

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WE have recently reported on observations of a ’transfer‘ of liquid helium II on glass1. Since then a great number of various experiments on this effect have been carried out, and, as the observed phenomena seem not only of interest in respect to theory but also in their influence on experimental conditions2, a short summary of the more important results follows.

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DAUNT, J., MENDELSSOHN, K. Transfer Effect in Liquid Helium II. Nature 142, 475 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142475a0

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