When an electric current passes through a metal wire, a magnetic field forms around that wire (see diagram at right). Likewise, a wire passing through a magnetic field creates an electric current ...

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electric fields, temperature, and pressure at the nanoscale. This illustration represents the atomic structure of a diamond lattice. Included is a Nitrogen (N) Vacancy (V) center. (Image: Wikimedia ...

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