thermal diffusion

American  

noun

Physical Chemistry.

1. the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.

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It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Swedish scientist was beginning to speed up the process with gadgets called thermal diffusion tubes when the war stopped him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Working on a navy contract quietly and virtually single-handedly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lawrence’s former graduate student Philip Abelson had perfected a way of enriching uranium by thermal diffusion.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Three weeks later, Groves ordered the erection of a 2,100-column thermal diffusion plant at Oak Ridge.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik