The influence of suggestion on unconscious behavior, frequently used to explain dowsing and other seemingly supernatural claims.

(physics) The creation of excess electron-hole pairs, triggered by impinging beta particles.

(physics) the thermodynamic effect by which heat being passed through a thermocouple is converted into electricity

(physics) A thermoelectric effect which occurs when current is passed through a thermocouple, used in computing as a cooling process.

(physics) The emission of light (Cerenkov radiation) that occurs when a charged particle passes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium; the characteristic blue glow from a nuclear reactor.

(chemistry, physics) The characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance.

(physics) the generation of static electricity by friction between different materials

The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.

(physics) the change in the spin of a gyroscope as it moves through curved spacetime

(physics) A test of the strong equivalence principle of general relativity that relies on detecting polarization in the orbit of the moon in the direction of the sun.