In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
FERMION
fermion
(noun) any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fermion (plural fermions)
(particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;
(slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions.
Coordinate terms
• boson (particle with integer spin)
Source: Wiktionary
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DESIRABLE
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
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