Sentences with phrase «tiny bar magnet»

Because of a quantum property called spin, electrons attached to those chains act like tiny bar magnets.

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

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.

If imbued with a quantum - mechanical property known as spin, individual atoms act as tiny bar magnets with north and south poles.

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.

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

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

Magnetic interactions between neutrons and atoms — which both behave like tiny bar magnets — also generate diffraction patterns.

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.

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

The magnetic trap can hold onto particles that have magnetic properties similar to those of a tiny bar magnet.

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

In fact, it's a tiny bar magnet.»

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