Paschen-Back effect

noun

Paschen-Back effect

noun

Etymology From Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Emil Alexander Back, German physicists.

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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A form of the Zeeman effect that affects the spectral lines obtained when a light source is placed in a very strong magnetic field.

Hypernyms
Zeeman effect

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