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eppur_se_muova

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1. Any mention of Maxwell's Demon gets me thinking of the Hilsch vortex tube ...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Wed Jun 14, 2017, 11:10 PM

Jun 2017

Which I just learned from Wikipedia has been applied to isotope separation, a possibility I had long wondered about.

Interesting where a little curious reading can lead us.

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A "Maxwell's Demon" For Carbon Dioxide Capture? [View all] NNadir Jun 2017 OP

Any mention of Maxwell's Demon gets me thinking of the Hilsch vortex tube ... eppur_se_muova Jun 2017 #1

I wasn't aware of this process; it's the first I've heard of it. I'm not an isotope separation... NNadir Jun 2017 #2