How to Use magnetic moment in a Sentence

magnetic moment

noun

• 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
• There are two ways that nature can make a magnetic moment.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The magnetic moment for the carrot is a bit more difficult.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
• The magnets misalign, reducing the magnetic moment of the rocks.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Part of what sets the axial Higgs boson apart from the Higgs boson is its magnetic moment.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
• 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
• The neutrino could have a magnetic moment, explaining these events.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But on the quantum level, magnetic moments can fluctuate.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The ratio between those values is proportional to the electron’s magnetic moment.
  — Katrina Miller, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The Standard Model predicts the anomalous magnetic moment very precisely.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• By measuring the magnetic moment, scientists are testing the theoretical linchpin of particle physics: the standard model.
  — Katrina Miller, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Fermilab’s new high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment is a remarkable experimental achievement.
  — Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024