It is shown that plane viscosity stratified system under longitudinal temperature gradient may exhibit long-wavelength instabilities of a purely kinetic nature which persist at arbitrary small Reynolds number. The first instability is so-called alpha effect, and the second one is a new surface-tension-induced instability. The weakly nonlinear equations for the evolving interfaces are derived and simulated.
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