English Explanatory Dictionary

Biefeld-Brown effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. An electrical phenomenon that produces an ionic wind that transfers its momentum to surrounding neutral particles, observed on an asymmetric capacitor when high voltage is applied to the electrodes.

Word forms

Biefeld-Brown effect

Etymology

Named by inventor Thomas Townsend Brown after himself and astronomy professor Paul Alfred Biefeld, his former teacher and possibly co-experimenter.

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