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Zeeman effect(medicine)
Zeeman(dictionary)
Zeeman, Pieter(medicine)
On-off effect(health)
Effect(medicine)
effect(2)(dictionary)
effect(1)(dictionary)
EFFECT(law)
by-effect(dictionary)

CRIMINAL (law) and Zeeman effect (sh)


CRIMINAL (law)


CRIMINAL. Relating to, or having the character of crime; as, criminal law, criminal conversation,



Person who has been found guilty of a criminal offence




Criminal laws cover any matter which can be punished by the State. Various organisations, such as the police, trading standards officers or customs officers, can bring cases to court.

Zeeman effect (sh)




Splitting of a spectral line (see spectrum) into two or more lines of different frequencies.

The effect occurs when the light source is placed in a magnetic field. It has helped identify the energy levels in atoms; it also provides a means of studying atomic nuclei and electron paramagnetic resonance (see magnetic resonance) and is used in measuring the magnetic field of the Sun and Other stars. It was discovered in 1896 by Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943); he shared the second Nobel Prize for Physics (1902) with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, who had hypothesized that a magnetic field would affect the frequency of the light emitted.