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Thermal conductivity of molten InSb was measured on board the TEXUS-24 sounding rocket by the transient hot-wire method using the originally designed thermal conductivity measurement facility (TCMF). Measurements made through this facility were affected by natural convection on the ground. This natural convection was confirmed to be sufficiently suppressed during a microgravity environment. The thermal conductivity of molten InSb was 15.8 and 18.2 W·m−1·K−1 at 830 and 890 K, respectively.
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Nakamura, S., Hibiya, T., Yamamoto, F. et al. Measurement of the thermal conductivity of molten InSb under microgravity. Int J Thermophys 12, 783–790 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00502405
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