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magnetic mirror

noun

Physics.
  1. a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.


magnetic mirror

noun

  1. physics a configuration of magnetic fields used to confine charged particles, as in a magnetic bottle
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Origin of magnetic mirror1

First recorded in 1890–95
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They report their discovery in the article "Modulated Kondo screening along magnetic mirror twin boundaries in monolayer MoS2" in Nature Physics.

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I imagine the disks hitting your pink Red Sox sweatshirt, falling past the decorations that hang on the inside of your locker door—the cutout magazine images of cats, the polka-dot magnetic mirror, the photos of your new friends, the ones that one day replaced the picture of the two of us standing together at Six Flags.

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Magnetic mirror holds promise for fusion.

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The design uses “magnetic mirror confinement†to control the reaction.

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McGuire says they get around this problem by encapsulating the cusp device inside a magnetic mirror device, a different sort of confinement technique.

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