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sextupole

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  • noun physics a distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to three dipoles that point in different directions
  • noun physics a magnet with three north poles and three south poles, used to focus or contain a beam of particles

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  • In this period these focusing methods in molecular beam physics with quadrupole and sextupole lenses having already started in

    Wolfgang Paul - Autobiography 1990

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