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Sunspots are relatively cooler areas on the sun's surface caused by deep concentrations of magnetic flux.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Feb. 2024
Chris Philpot The key is that, due to a phenomenon called magnetic flux quantization in the superconducting loop, this pulse is always exactly the same.
—Anna Herr, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
These magnetic pairs mostly—but not entirely—dissipate as the sunspots decay away, leaving a little leftover magnetic flux of one charge or the other.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
Scientific instrument maker Bruker’s newest spectrometers sandwich an inner coil of HTS between an outer coil of low-temperature superconductors, achieving magnetic flux densities of 28.2 T—nearly 600,000 times as strong as Earth’s magnetic field.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2023
In Polaris, each fusion pulse should cause the plasma to expand, increasing its magnetic flux and inducing electric current in the magnetic coils that ultimately flows back to the capacitors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
Electrical circuits use four fundamental variables — current, voltage, charge and magnetic flux-linkage.
—Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
In the ‘70s, scientists observed that magnetic flux around a tiny doughnut of a superconductor behaved this way.
—Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
His research led to the question of tangles, which also occur at the microscopic level in DNA helixes and in magnetic flux lines crisscrossing the cosmos.
—Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 2 May 2022
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First Known Use
1896, in the meaning defined above
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“Magnetic flux.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnetic%20flux. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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