magnetic flux quantum
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magnetic flux quantum
[mag‚ned·ik ′fləks ‚kwän·təm] (electricity)
A fundamental unit of magnetic flux, the total magnetic flux in a fluxoid in a type II superconductor, equal to h /(2 e), where h is Planck's constant and e is the magnitude of the electron charge, or approximately 2.07 × 10-15 weber.
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