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ALFVEN WAVES

Specialty Definition: ALFVEN WAVES

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Physics

Electromagnetic waves that are propagated along lines of magnetic force in a plasma. Alfen waves, named after plasma physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfen, have frequencies significantly less than the ion cyclotron frequency, and are characterized by the fact that the magnetic field lines oscillate with the plasma. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ALFVEN WAVES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-l-n-s-v-v-w"

-4 letters: enslave, favelas, leavens.

-5 letters: aneles, faenas, favela, flanes, flense, leaven, leaves, navels, newels, seawan, sleave, sweven, valves, veenas, weasel, weaves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ALFVEN WAVES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 4C 46 56 45 4E      57 41 56 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001100 01000110 01010110 01000101 01001110 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#70 &#86 &#69 &#78 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 0046 0056 0045 004E      0057 0041 0056 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35464056394825735563953

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1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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