Thread: alignment in a magnetic field
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Elongated molecules like DNA helices, bacteriophage etc. have intrinsic large magnetic susceptibility anisotropies which aligns them in magnetic fields (similar to magnetic dipoles). Check out papers from the 80s by A. A. Bothner-By for more details.
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