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- noun Plural form of
magnon .
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This spin chain itself carries excitations and the most important ones are called magnons: it's an excitation that reverts the direction of a single spin (or the "magnetic moment" if you wish) in the spin chain and propagates as a wave along the chain.
The Reference Frame 2010
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The 19 K BEC was composed of half-matter, half-light quasi-particles called polaritons, and the room temperature condensate was composed of 'magnons' (packets of magnetic energy).
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The 19 K BEC was composed of half-matter, half-light quasi-particles called polaritons, and the room temperature condensate was composed of 'magnons' (packets of magnetic energy).
doggdot.us 2009
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The 19 K BEC was composed of half-matter, half-light quasi-particles called polaritons, and the room temperature condensate was composed of 'magnons' (packets of magnetic energy).
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At the very least they have evolved into Cro-magnons.
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One of the theories is that Neanderthals actually interbred with cro-magnons and share a common ancestor a half million years ago?
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We are in reality cro-magnons and share their bodies.
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The chief seems to be doing more than his bit in the foment of the cro-magnons.
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You cro magnons buy into the effete, latte sipping elitist stereotype at your own risk.
Milbank: McCain-Palin's Attacks On Media Have Spawned Unprecedented Crowd Hostility Toward Press 2009
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The feeling I will have when McCain and Palin win in spite of cro-magnons like Sullivan - I don't know if there will be a word for it.
"My view is that the GOP is now like Wile E Coyote about half a mile off the cliff suspended in mid-air." Ann Althouse 2008
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