The electrical conductivity of molten sodium and potassium chloroaluminumates increase with increasing electrical field strength and reach the limiting values. The limiting high-voltage conductivities of the melts surpass their usual values up to 200% in NaAlCl4and 700% in KAlCl4. These results have been obtained on the base of analysis of the microsecond high-voltage discharges in the melts (the Wien effect). After the high-voltage pulses discharges having been completed in the melts, their conductivity has been found to rise up to 50% (the “memory effect”). The relaxation time of a non-equilibrium state reaches 5 minutes and more.
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