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Plasmon

Plasmon \Plas"mon\, n. [Cf. Plasma.] A flourlike food preparation made from skim milk, and consisting essentially of the unaltered proteid of milk. It is also used in making biscuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called

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plasmon

n. 1 (context genetics English) All the genetic material in an organism. 2 (context physics astronomy English) The quantum of waves produced by the collective effects of large numbers of electrons when disturbed from equilibrium.

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Plasmon

In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation. As light consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons. The plasmon can be considered as a quasiparticle since it arises from the quantization of plasma oscillations, just like phonons are quantizations of mechanical vibrations. Thus, plasmons are collective (a discrete number) oscillations of the free electron gas density. For example, at optical frequencies, plasmons can couple with a photon to create another quasiparticle called a plasmon polariton.

Usage examples of "plasmon".

Open your mouth and let me pop in one of these delicious little plasmon biscuits.

Ashcroft comes up here every day and pathetically tries to make me understand the points of the lawsuit which we are conducting against Henry Butters, Harold Wheeler, and the rest of those Plasmon buccaneers, but daily he has to give it up.