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ground state

NOUN
  1. (physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle

How To Use ground state In A Sentence

  • When electrons in the excited state outnumber electrons in the resting, or ground state, however, population inversion has taken place.
  • In vertebrates, it looks like the ground state is to make ribby thoracic segments everywhere.
  • Some suits already have been filed, and platoons of lawyers and other legal watchdogs are standing by in battleground states like Wisconsin just in case.
  • When an atom or ion is in its ground state, the electrons spend a lot more time close to the nucleus than they do when the atom is in an excited state.
  • The president also made phone calls to boost the morale of activists and party organizers in battleground states such as Florida, New Hampshire, New Mexico and his native Hawaii. Rhetoric Is Sharp to the End
  • In mid-September, NOM filed a lawsuit against the New York Board of Elections, declaring its intent to once again funnel undisclosed sums of money into political campaigns in key battleground states. Evan Wolfson: National Organization for Marriage, What Are You Hiding?
  • The relatively stable ground state of oxygen is a triplet state with two unpaired electrons with the same spin quantum number, each located in different antibonding orbitals.
  • Have you a device by which I might measure the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom? Measurement
  • This contest is primarily a war of turnout in a dozen or so battleground states.
  • Nuclear isomers are excited states that eventually decay to the ground state, mostly by gamma radiation.
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