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Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.

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Origin of magnetic bottle

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby magnetic bottle

magnetar, magnetic, magnetic amplifier, magnetic anomaly, magnetic bearing, magnetic bottle, magnetic bubble, magnetic card, magnetic character reader, magnetic charge, magnetic chart

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Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.
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That means that Champagne is fermented a second time in the bottle when sealed closed, which naturally produces the bubbles.
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If you need to store the bottle in the fridge, let it warm up for a few minutes on the counter before serving.
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I get the bottle while he opens a desk drawer containing two glasses.
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He said officers no longer arrest people for merely having an open beer bottle but instead ask them to leave the alcohol behind.
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One of the little girls in pigtails was holding him, while Miss Anne administered the feeding-bottle.
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He went off whistling, and Isabel raised her hand and looked at it meditatively; his own had been unexpectedly warm and magnetic.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
An hour later, I heard he was dead: that on his way to his home he had purchased a bottle of laudanum and swallowed the contents!
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He thrust one hand into his gold-coloured skirt, and produced a glass bottle full of some very cheap perfume from Europe.
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He started a guerilla campaign against the obsession with the aid of the brandy bottle.
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British Dictionary definitions for magnetic bottle

magnetic bottle

noun

a configuration of magnetic fields for containing plasma

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