magnetic monopole
Americannoun
noun
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For example, magnetic monopole quasiparticles have only one magnetic pole — unlike all ordinary magnets, which always have a north and a south.
From Nature • Jul. 2, 2020
Physicists can’t find natural magnetic monopole so they make their own, in a Bose-Einstein sort of way.
From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2014
He is impatient with lesser minds than his and is intellectually restless: his current projects range from tracking down the magnetic monopole, another elusive particle, to searching for antimatter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unexpected particle, they said, was almost surely a magnetic monopole, the long-sought basic unit of magnetism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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