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"ref": "1987, Minoru Takahashi et al., editors, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987, page 392:",
"text": "The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A group of six peaks or lines"
],
"links": [
[
"spectroscopy",
"spectroscopy"
],
[
"six",
"six"
],
[
"peak",
"peak"
],
[
"line",
"line"
]
],
"qualifier": "spectroscopy",
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, spectroscopy) A group of six peaks or lines"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "sĕksʹtāt",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛksteɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
}
],
"word": "sextate"
}
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