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Oersted

noun
1.
The magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole.
2.
Danish physicist (1777-1851).  Synonym: Hans Christian Oersted.





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... kingdom containing scarcely three million people, yet it has produced many eminent men of science, art, and literature. The names of Hans Christian Andersen, Rasmus Rask, the philologist, Oersted, the discoverer of electro-magnetism, Forchhammer, the chemist, and Eschricht, the physiologist, occur to us in this connection. It is a country of legend and romance, of historic and prehistoric monuments, besides being ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou


Words linked to "Oersted" :   Hans Christian Oersted, gamma, physicist, field strength unit


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