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Astrophysics and condensed matter.


9781604563320

Astrophysics and condensed matter.

Ed. by Thomas G. Hardwell.

Nova Science Publishers

2008

269 pages

$129.00

Hardcover

Horizons in world physics; v.262

QB461

Physicists explore phenomena at the scale of stars and galaxies by looking at atomic and even subatomic subatomic /sub·atom·ic/ (-ah-tom´ik) of or pertaining to the constituent parts of an atom.

sub·a·tom·ic
adj.
1. Of or relating to the constituents of the atom.

2.
 structures and behaviors of the compounds that have been detected, or sometimes predicted, way out there. The topics include crystallographic crys·tal·log·ra·phy  
n.
The science of crystal structure and phenomena.



crystal·log
 research developments, magnetism in pure and doped manganese clusters, muon muon (my`ŏn), elementary particle heavier than an electron but lighter than other particles having nonzero rest mass.  colliders and Higgs boson boson: see elementary particles; Bose-Einstein statistics.
boson

Subatomic particle with integral spin that is governed by Bose-Einstein statistics.
 physics, and chemical bonding theory of single crystal growth.

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