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March 24, 2008
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Staff engineer Matt Johnson inspects a 45-degree dipole magnet.
Matt Johnson, staff enginer at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), inspects a 45-degree dipole magnet. The magnet, used to turn and separate nuclei, was installed in 2007, enabling researchers to continue pursuing exotic nuclei at the edge of existence.
Credit: NSCL
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