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- adjective Of or pertaining to
quantum mechanics
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Because in the Argentina I created, in the Dirty War setting as imagined, I became obsessed with the almost quantum-mechanical evil that is a byproduct of disappearing people.
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MO theory considers, in quantum-mechanical terms, the interaction between all atomic nuclei and electrons in a molecule.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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The rest of the lecture explains how to do mathematics with twistors and how to translate the standard quantum-mechanical description of a massless particle in the most general spacetime into the twistor language.
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What, indeed, does twistor theory have to say about unifying spacetime structure with quantum-mechanical principles?
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So far, we have merely seen some ` cute 'geometrical and algebraic ways to describe massless particles, but neither quantum-mechanical nor general-relativistic ideas have yet played any roles.
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It was, of course, as a result of the Great Ventilation and Telephone Riots srDt 3454 that all mechanical or electrical or quantum-mechanical or hydraulic or even wind -, steam -, or piston-driven devices, are now required to have a certain legend emblazoned on them somewhere.
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At such short distances, a quantum-mechanical effect known as the Casimir force – which is too weak to be seen at distances greater than a micrometer – becomes significant.
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Englander says that in writing the novel, I became obsessed with the almost quantum-mechanical evil that is a byproduct of disappearing people.
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander: Questions 2007
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However, not all subsets of S correspond to quantum-mechanical properties of the system.
Puppet X: 1 2009
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Due to interaction between molecules and radiation these lines became fussy, giving more wide bands, but quantum-mechanical calculation of the resulting radiation balance is extremly difficult and can not be achieved at present.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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