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SpaceX will likely focus on unpaired blocks, which essentially means it is looking to deliver high-speed broadband directly to a phone.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

"Even a slight elevation in the transition temperature could reduce the number of remaining, unpaired electrons," Liu said, potentially making the material a better superconductor and increasing its quantum coherence time.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024

"The remaining unpaired magnetic moments could be entangled with each other, manipulated with external magnetic fields and thus used for data storage or computational operations in quantum computers," says the solid-state physicist Pustogow.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Pairing up electrons within an ultrathin wire can leave an unpaired electron at either end that virtually splits to form Majorana quasiparticles at each end.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

Sometimes the ventral portions of these pads form paired or unpaired little ossifications, then generally described as intercentra; such are not uncommon on the tail.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various