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US
/ˈfɝmi/
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[ UK /fˈɜːmi/ ]
[ UK /fˈɜːmi/ ]
NOUN
- a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
How To Use fermi In A Sentence
- Four people were gored and several others sustained scrapes and cuts yesterday as large crowds of enthusiasts in the Spanish city of Pamplona ran alongside six fighting bulls in the third bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
- He's principal investigator of the Large Area Telescope on NASA's Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope.
- A Spanish 'banderillero' reacts to a bull from Dolores Aguirre Ybarra ranch in the bullring during San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona northern Spain, Saturday July 10, 2010. KansasCity.com: Front Page
- All isotopes of fermium are radioactive, with fermium-257 having the longest half life, 20.1 hours.
- For example, the earliest version of the theory could only accommodate bosons, whereas many hadrons - including the proton and neutron - are fermions.
- Following the discovery of artificial radioactivity by M and Mme. Joliot-Curie and the use of neutrons by Fermi for atomic nuclear processes, Hahn again collaborated with Professor Meitner and afterwards with Dr. Strassmann on the processes of irradiating uranium and thorium with neutrons. Otto Hahn - Biography
- For example, the earliest version of the theory could only accommodate bosons, whereas many hadrons - including the proton and neutron - are fermions.
- In supersymmetric theories all bosons have a fermionic superpartner and vice versa.
- Every chiral fermion in the Standard Model has a scalar superpartner; collectively these scalars are referred to as the sfermions, which divide like quarks and leptons into squarks and sleptons.
- The Dubna group had made fermium and rutherfordium this way in the 1970s.