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Is there a difference in binding energy between a regular material and a doped one?

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Where can I find how to do data analysis for a magnetic hysteresis loop?

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How can crystal structures be determined using X-ray diffraction?

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What does it mean to apply a voltage bias on a superconductor when $V = IR$ and $R = 0$ for a superconductor?

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How are lattice parameters determined from reciprocal space maps?

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What's the difference between a positive and a negative current?

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What are some ways of inducing spin polarization?

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Why can't a dislocation terminate in the bulk?

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Are all reversible processes adiabatic?

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Is the thermal conductivity of metals affected by magnetic fields?

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Why don't FCC metals have a brittle-to-ductile temperature transition?

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What's the difference in the film between sputtering deposition and an ebeam evaporator?

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For the transition metals, how does counting the number of up-spins and down-spins still give you a non-integer magnetic moment?

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Why do metals become insulators when oxidized?

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Is the saturation magnetization of a thin film different if you apply the field at different directions?

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What is the significance of the Debye temperature from a materials perspctive?

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Why is the vapor pressure important for people that grow films in high vacuum chambers?

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If I lick a 9V battery, why doesn't my tongue noticeably get hotter?

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If my lattice has an atomic basis, do I also find the reciprocals of the basis vectors to get the reciprocal crystal structure?

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What are correlated magnetic moments?

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What is an off-axis peak in x-ray diffractometry?

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Is diffraction through an aperture similar to diffraction by a plane of atoms?

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What are the largest thermal gradients achievable in a lab environment?

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What does (001) Silicon mean?

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I can't figure out crystal planes with negative intercepts

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Is the convective heat coefficient always dependent on heat flux and delta T?

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Is the thickness of a sample related to the intensity of x-ray diffraction?

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Is there a heat transfer equation that takes conduction, convection, radiation and dT/dt into account?

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If I take an XRD image of a single cubic unit cell, would the diffraction pattern simply be its reciprocal lattice?

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Interpretation of the off-diagonal terms of the conductivity tensor