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Meissner effect

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Meissner effect

[mahys-ner]
–noun Physics.
the loss of magnetism that a superconductor displays when cooled to its transition temperature in a magnetic field.

Origin:
after German physicist Fritz Walther Meissner (1882–1974), who contributed to a description of the effect in 1933
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