Thermoelektrische Eigenschaften reiner Metalle in der Umgebung der Schmelztemperatur

The thermoelectric power of the face-centered cubic metals copper, silver, gold and aluminium was measured in the vicinity of the melting temperature. For all four metals mentioned a discontinuous change of the absolute Seebeck coefficient towards more positive values was found at the melting point. — Values of the thermoelectric power of liquid metals may be calculated with a model using the correlation function of the ions and their pseudopotentials as proposed byZiman. The results agree, at least qualitatively, with the measured values.