backbending

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backbending [′bak‚bend·iŋ]

(nuclear physics)

A discontinuity in the rotational levels of some rare-earth nuclei around spin 20ℏ (where ℏ is Planck's constant divided by 2π), which appears as a backbend on a graph that plots the moment of inertia versus the square of the rotational frequency.

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