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nafen

nafen noun: an aerogel made from near-parallel strands of aluminium oxide.

Noun

nafen (uncountable)

  1. An aerogel made from near-parallel strands of aluminium oxide
    • Experiments also demonstrate that the HQVs formed under rotation are strongly pinned by the nafen strands..2015, S. Autti, V.V. Dmitriev, V.B. Eltsov, J. Makinen, G.E. Volovik, A.N. Yudin, V.V. Zavjalov, “Observation of half-quantum vortices in superfluid 3He”, in arXiv

Questions about nafen

What does nafen mean?
Nafen means an aerogel made from near-parallel strands of aluminium oxide.
What part of speech is nafen?
Nafen is a noun.

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