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Materials science
The the study of matter and their applications in various areas of science and engineering.
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de Boer parameter
Materials science; Material physics
Parameter which expresses the importance of quantum mechanical effects in a liquid, especially one of the inert elements. The parameter is approximately the square root of the ...
exchange energy
Materials science; Material physics
Part of the energy of a system of many electrons (or any other type of fermion) that depends on the total spin of the system. So called because the total spin determines the ...
laser wakefield accelerator
Materials science; Material physics
Particle accelerator that uses an intense short pulse of laser light to excite plasma oscillations that are used to accelerate charged particles to high energy.
Coulomb collision
Materials science; Material physics
Particle collisions where the Coulomb force (electrical-force attraction or repulsion) is the governing force that results in deflection of the particles away from their initial ...
anomalous plasma diffusion
Materials science; Material physics
Particle or heat diffusion in a plasma that is larger than what was predicted from theoretical predictions of classical plasma phenomenon. Classical diffusion and neo-classical ...
viscous diffusion
Materials science; Material physics
Penetration of the effects of motion in a viscous fluid where the boundary layer grows outward from the surface. Near the surface, fluid parcels are accelerated by an imbalance of ...
toroidal pinch
Materials science; Material physics
Perhaps the earliest proposed magnetic confinement fusion scheme (Thomson and Blackman, 1946, in the UK), this is a toroidal variant of the Z pinch, in which a transformer primary ...
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