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- noun Plural form of
substate .
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Examples
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In a spatially extensive turbulent terawatt heat engine such as earth you can expect many many equilibrium states and substates.
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Because “basic meteorology” says nothing about geologic-scale variability related to state-switching in response to periodic Milankovitch forcings, or changes in attracting substates in response to GHGs.
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Alfred Kastler (who received the Physics Prize in 1966) and his co-workers showed in the 1950s that electrons in atoms can be put into selected excited substates by the use of polarized light.
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There were seven principal players in the subsequent fighting: Qin in the west, Qi in the east, and Chu in the south were the major powers; with a second rung of Yan in the Beijing area and the three substates of Jin (Han, Zhao, and Wei).
722-481 B.C.E 2001
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These combinations fall under the three main heads of solids, liquids and gases, the recognised substates of physical matter, with the theoretical ether scarcely admitted as material.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890
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The horizontal lines separate from each other the seven substates of matter; solid, liquid, gas, ether 4, ether 3, ether 2, ether 1.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890
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Closer examination shows that the ether is not homogeneous but consists of particles of numerous kinds, differing in the aggregations of the minute bodies composing them; and a careful and more detailed method of analysis reveals that it has four distinct degrees, giving us, with the solid, liquid and gaseous, seven instead of four substates of matter in the physical world.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890
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These four etheric substates will be best understood if the method be explained by which they were studied.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890
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Theosophical reader will notice with interest that we can thus observe seven distinct substates of physical matter, and no more.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890
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The field will have eight teams, which will be split into two four-team substates based on records.
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