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- noun physics The
frictionless flow of aliquid attemperatures nearabsolute zero , especially that ofliquid helium .
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Professor Reynolds who really excited my interest in superfluidity and low temperature physics.
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The Russian physicist Pyotr Kapitsa later coined the analogous expression superfluidity to describe how liquid helium, at even lower temperatures, flows without internal friction or resistance.
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It exhibits a property known as superfluidity, whereby atoms can flow across rough surfaces without ever slowing down.
UQ News Online 2008
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It is generic to a wide range of processes from Curie point on ferromagnetic behavior, superconductivity, superfluidity, Landau electron phases and so forth.
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Grant Allen declared that Hedda was “nothing more nor less than the girl we take down to dinner in London nineteen times out of twenty”; in which case Ibsen must have suffered from a superfluidity of models, rather than from any difficulty in finding one.
Hedda Gabler 2006
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Grant Allen declared that Hedda was “nothing more nor less than the girl we take down to dinner in London nineteen times out of twenty”; in which case Ibsen must have suffered from a superfluidity of models, rather than from any difficulty in finding one.
Hedda Gabler 2006
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Both superconductivity and superfluidity occur at very low temperatures.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 - Information for the Public 2003
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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for work concerning two of these situations: superconductivity and superfluidity.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 - Information for the Public 2003
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Ginzburg have developed theories for superconductivity and Anthony Leggett has explained one type of superfluidity.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 - Information for the Public 2003
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Leggett's theory, which was first formulated for superfluidity in
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 - Information for the Public 2003
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