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  • noun Plural form of nucleate.

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Examples

  • So somewhere in our A universe, a microscopic bubble nucleates.

    False Vacua I: The End of the Universe As We Know it « Imaginary Potential 2008

  • Pradel et al. [20] found that MamK nucleates at multiple sites and assembles into mosaic bundles of filaments.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010

  • Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and the TU Berlin discovered the reason for this when they tried to impose a 7-fold symmetry on a layer of charged colloidal particles using strong laser fields: the emergence of ordered structures requires the presence of specific sites where the corresponding order nucleates.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and the TU Berlin discovered the reason for this when they tried to impose a 7-fold symmetry on a layer of charged colloidal particles using strong laser fields: the emergence of ordered structures requires the presence of specific sites where the corresponding order nucleates.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and the TU Berlin discovered the reason for this when they tried to impose a 7-fold symmetry on a layer of charged colloidal particles using strong laser fields: the emergence of ordered structures requires the presence of specific sites where the corresponding order nucleates.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • Pradel et al. [20] found that MamK nucleates at multiple sites and assembles into mosaic bundles of filaments.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010

  • "Most of what nucleates clouds are dust particles," said Cziczo.

    RealClimate 2009

  • "Most of what nucleates clouds are dust particles," said Cziczo.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Second, Sean’s point was that he has an alternative to the Humean nightmare — in the late stages of a deSitter expansion, the total entropy may be large, but its * density* is small, so when a baby universe nucleates, its small size means that it automatically has very low entropy.

    Fly-By Blogging Sean 2006

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