How to Use magnetic moment in a Sentence
magnetic moment
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But, as the rock cools, the magnetic moment from all the iron atoms begin to line up, thanks to the Earth's magnetic field.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
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There are two ways that nature can make a magnetic moment.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
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The magnetic moment for the carrot is a bit more difficult.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
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The magnets misalign, reducing the magnetic moment of the rocks.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
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However, the magnetic moment of an actual piece of iron would depend on the strength of the magnetic field that induces it.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
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Part of what sets the axial Higgs boson apart from the Higgs boson is its magnetic moment.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
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In 2021 the collaboration measured the muon’s magnetic moment to a precision of one part in two million.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
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The neutrino could have a magnetic moment, explaining these events.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
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Years ago, physicists attempted to measure the magnetic moment of the muon to incredible precision, and got a value.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
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In that model, magnetic moments are arranged in a grid, where each atom's moment can only interact with—and potentially change—the moment of a next-door neighbor.
—Meredith Fore, WIRED, 5 July 2019
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The electron’s spin can be readily rotated by magnetic fields, with its magnetic moment serving as a sort of handle.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
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First, most anomalies, in particular the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, would affect Z decays, such as Z bosons turning into a muon and an antimatter muon.
—Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
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But on the quantum level, magnetic moments can fluctuate.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2019
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The muon’s magnetic moment determines how fast the particle’s spin axis orbits around magnetic field lines.
—Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
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The ratio between those values is proportional to the electron’s magnetic moment.
—Katrina Miller, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
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Because of the uneven number of particles in the nucleus, helium three has a strong magnetic moment. The helium is put into a state where all the magnets point in the same direction, creating what is called magnon.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2018
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The Standard Model predicts the anomalous magnetic moment very precisely.
—Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2021
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Based on calculations of the magnetic moment from that first run, the scientists observed that the muons wobbled — or precessed — significantly more than theory predicts.
—Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2021
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The atoms in a magnetic material like iron or nickel each have something called a magnetic moment, which is basically a tiny individual magnetic field.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
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But another group — which calculated what’s known to be the dominant strong-force contribution to the muon’s magnetic moment — found a significant discrepancy.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
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This entourage influences the behavior of existing particles, including a property of the muon called its magnetic moment, represented in equations by a factor called g.
—New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
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By measuring the magnetic moment, scientists are testing the theoretical linchpin of particle physics: the standard model.
—Katrina Miller, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
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If the experimental value of these particles’ magnetic moment differs from the theoretical prediction—an anomaly—that deviation could be a sign of new physics, such as some subtle and unknown muon-influencing particle or force.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
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Fermilab’s new high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment is a remarkable experimental achievement.
—Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
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Both measurements of the muon’s wobbliness, or magnetic moment, significantly overshoot the theoretical prediction, as calculated last year by an international consortium of 132 theoretical physicists.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2021
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