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chemical diffusion
Diffusion under the influence of a gradient in chemical composition. In concentrated solid solutions, e.g. A1-xBx, or in diffusion couples, the motion of one constituent causes a counterflow of the other constituents(s) or vacancies. In this case one can define a diffusion coefficient for the intermixing, which is called the chemical diffusion coefficient or interdiffusion coefficient.
Source:
PAC, 1999, 71, 1310
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Cite as: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, Electronic version, http://goldbook.iupac.org/CT06757.html.
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/CT06757.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic
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