Conventional circuit components such as capacitors also represent an energy store, as do ordinary magnets.
Like two ordinary magnets, two electrons "repel" each other--and the total energy increases--when their magnetic orientations, or spins, are aligned.
Dr. Ting plans to replace the magnet with an ordinary one of the exact same size that flew in a test flight aboard the space shuttle in 1998, since it doesn't need helium cooling and thus will last as long as the station.
Lily, the first-person narrator, is an only child bored of her own ordinary parents and drawn like a magnet into this glamorous circle.
You can use any magnet to "pass on" the magnetism to the steel, but ordinary refrigerator magnets will have a very weak effect.
This ideal has made the United States the world's strongest magnet for immigrants; it has also reconciled ordinary Americans to the rough side of a dynamic economy, with all its inequalities and insecurities.
As such, the solidarity events at Sheikh Jarrah have proved a far stronger magnet than Bil'in and Nil'in to ordinary Israelis, both individuals and groups alike.
The Viva Mayr is a magnet for celebrities and the rich but there are plenty of "ordinary" people here too.
These are a magnet for wealthy parents, whose offspring can be seen speeding past ordinary mortals on the pistes, resplendent in shiny salopettes and Ray-Bans.
This suggests that depressive disorder is an extreme form of an ordinary thought process, part of the dismal machinery that draws us toward our problems, like a magnet to metal.
