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 | | The Peltier-Seebeck and Thomson effects are reversible (in fact, the Peltier and Seebeck effects are reversals of one another); Joule heating is not, and cannot be, under the laws of thermodynamics. |
 | | This effect was first discovered, accidentally, by the Estonian physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck in 1821, who found that a voltage existed between two ends of a metal bar when a temperature gradient existed in the bar. |
 | | The Seebeck coefficients are non-linear, and depend on the conductors' absolute temperature, material, and molecular structure. |
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