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thermoelectric effect

American  

noun

Physics.

  1. the production of an electromotive force in a thermocouple.

thermoelectric effect British  

noun

  1. another name for the Seebeck effect Peltier effect

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This device was able to exhibit a transverse thermoelectric effect significantly larger than that produced solely by existing magnetic materials capable of exhibiting the anomalous Nernst effect in the first-ever experimental demonstration of its kind.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

The thermoelectric effect is based on the movement of charged particles that migrate from the hotter to the colder side of a material.

From Science Daily • Sep. 18, 2023

Thanks to a phenomenon known as the thermoelectric effect, this sets up an electric current that the spacecraft can use to power its instruments, or store in a battery.

From Nature • Nov. 24, 2014

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