Sentences with phrase «like tiny magnets»

Many subatomic particles act like tiny magnets, with their strength dubbed their «g - factor».

A material becomes magnetic when most of its atoms — which behave like tiny magnets — point in the same direction.

In simple terms, spins (spin quantum numbers, or more precisely their associated magnetic moments), are just like tiny magnets, conventionally shown as arrows.

Spin is a property of electrons that makes the electron act like a tiny magnet.

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Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power - hungry transistors may enable intensive number - crunching tasks like codebreaking or image - processing using a fraction of the power.

In a magnetic material, such as iron, each atom acts like a tiny bar magnet with its own north and south poles.

These atomic magnets tend to point in the same direction, like an array of tiny compasses fixated on a common magnetic point.

Hearts are promising organs for the new technology because introducing nanoparticles into the wide - open spaces of the organ's atria and ventricles presents less of a challenge than incorporating the tiny magnets all throughout more solid structures like brains or livers, according to Kelvin Brockbank of Clemson University and Tissue Testing LLC, one of the authors of the paper who spoke to reporters during a 28 February teleconference.

The nanoclusters — about 20,000 per square micrometer — act like tiny bar magnets with «spins» that can be oriented either randomly or in a coordinated manner.

Spin often is compared with a tiny bar magnet like a compass needle, either pointing up or down — representing one or zero — in an electron or an atom's nucleus.

Like two tiny bar magnets, two atoms can stick together and form a new particle that propagates in the crystal.

The solution, developed by Haselton and colleagues at Vanderbilt University, was the extractionator, a tool that keeps body fluids sterile while tiny magnets extract disease biomarkers, like proteins or bits of DNA, that can be the telltale sign of an infection.

Those metals can be magnetized because each of their atoms acts like a tiny bar magnet.

To be magnetic a molecule has to have isolated electrons, which act like tiny bar magnets.

Internally, the tiny magnetic components in spin ices arrange themselves head to tail in strings, like chains of bar magnets stretching across a table in different directions.

Internally, the tiny magnetic components arrange themselves head to tail in strings, like chains of bar magnets stretching across a table in different directions.

Electrons and nuclei can act like tiny bar magnets with a spin that is assigned a directional state of either «up» or «down.»

In addition to carrying a negative electric charge, electrons also carry spin, which can point up or down like a tiny bar magnet.

This technique, tried and perfected at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)-- a particle collider and U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory — orients the colliding protons» spins in a particular direction, somewhat like tiny bar magnets with their North poles all pointing up.

Like two magnets being pulled toward each other, tiny crystals twist, align and slam into each other, but due to an altogether different force.

But today, they war against some tiny box - shaped magnets that look eerily like Baby Mother Boxes.

The tiny city of Alberobello is like a magnet for tourists that flock here in summer, so the period between November and April is the best to avoid crowds.

The material is magnetic because it contains metal atoms that themselves act like tiny bar magnets.

4 If you'd like to display an egg on your refrigerator or a memo board, glue a tiny magnet to its back.