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Loading contentAn intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by particles, quantised in units of the reduced Planck constant and unrelated to any literal spinning. Spin divides particles into fermions and bosons and, through the Pauli exclusion principle, into the electron shells of atoms; the spin-flip of hydrogen produces the 21-centimetre radio line that maps neutral gas across the Galaxy.
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