Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stern-gerlach experiment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables: stern-ger-lach -ex-per-i-ment
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

7

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An experiment demonstrating that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized, and thus an atomic-scale system has intrinsically quantum properties.

Etymology

After its conception by Otto Stern in 1921, the experiment was first successfully conducted with Walther Gerlach in early 1922.

Inflected Forms

the Stern-Gerlach experiment (canonical)

Questions

What does stern-gerlach experiment mean?: An experiment demonstrating that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized, and thus an atomic-scale system has intrinsically quantum properties.
Where does stern-gerlach experiment come from?: After its conception by Otto Stern in 1921, the experiment was first successfully conducted with Walther Gerlach in early 1922.

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