Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heusler compound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: heusler -com-pound
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of magnetic intermetallic compounds with face-centered cubic crystal structure and a composition of XYZ (half-Heuslers) or X2YZ (full-Heuslers), where X and Y are transition metals and Z is in the p-block. They have applications in spintronics.

Etymology

Named after German mining engineer and chemist Friedrich Heusler, who studied such a compound in 1903.

Inflected Forms

Heusler compounds (plural)

Synonyms

Heusler alloy

Questions

What does heusler compound mean?: Any of a class of magnetic intermetallic compounds with face-centered cubic crystal structure and a composition of XYZ (half-Heuslers) or X2YZ (full-Heuslers), where X and Y are transition metals and Z is in the p-block. They have applications in spintronics.
Where does heusler compound come from?: Named after German mining engineer and chemist Friedrich Heusler, who studied such a compound in 1903.

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