macroscopic
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"The work has allowed us to tie the structures of individual molecules to macroscopic properties of their condensates, really for the first time," Rosen says.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
However, on a nanoscopic scale, materials are not homogeneous anymore and the macroscopic description of the material is insufficient.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
That means the puddle has more entropy than the crystals, and the system evolves to the macroscopic state with the greatest entropy.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024
Darwin’s question was macroscopic: How do organisms transmute information about their features over a thousand generations?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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