singlet
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An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
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Because mesons are made of one quark and one antiquark, they can be found in triplet and singlet spin states.
Both low-spin iron and singlet oxygen are diamagnetic.
A source produces a singlet pair, one particle is sent to one location, and the other is sent to another location.
Compare this with the predictions from quantum mechanics for the singlet state.
From the above equations, it can be shown that the spin singlet can also be written as : where the terms on the right hand side are what we have referred to as state Ia and state IIa.
However, the singlet form of oxygen is the higher-energy form of the molecule.