Halleffect

Halleffect
Hall effect n.
Generation of an electric potential perpendicular to both an electric current flowing along a conducting material and an external magnetic field applied at right angles to the current upon application of the magnetic field.
  [After Edwin Herbert Hall (1855-1938), American physicist.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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