quanta
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This process excites the organic molecules, which then release energy as light quanta.
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The challenge with Josephson junctions is that their behavior unfolds at the level of individual quanta.
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At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
This process allows the penetration and pinning of magnetic flux quanta, which in turn creates a magnetic stray field.
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Photons are "light quanta" that constitute the basic building blocks making up the electromagnetic radiation field.
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