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Although I guess it could de-excite in steps, but my guess is that whatever the excitation was is also most likely to be the major re-emission.
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Professor Jay Rosen: Lowenstein wants to de-excite us.
Forbes.com: News Francine McKenna 2011
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Thousands of years of human development has shown that this knowledge lies within and the most effective way to contact this is to be able to de-excite and experience our consciousness in its most settled state.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk Jo Confino 2010
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The system may then de-excite in stages and initiate a reaction that in effect acts as a chemical compass, because the relative proportion of the reaction products can depend on the singlet-triplet oscillation frequency.
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The system may then de-excite in stages and initiate a reaction that in effect acts as a chemical compass, because the relative proportion of the reaction products can depend on the singlet-triplet oscillation frequency.
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The lasers basically excite and de-excite the atoms several trillionths of times per second.
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Ma said, "In this vacuum, the state of each atom - or quantum dot - can be manipulated with color-coded streams of laser pulses that sequentially excite and de-excite it in trillionths of a second.
The Times of India 2009
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"In this vacuum, the state of each atom - or quantum dot - can be manipulated with color-coded streams of laser pulses that sequentially excite and de-excite it in trillionths of a second.
ACM TechNews 2009
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"In this vacuum, the state of each atom - or quantum dot - can be manipulated with color-coded streams of laser pulses that sequentially excite and de-excite it in trillionths of a second.
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