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Common card · Science
Theta pinch, a Common card
Theta-pinch, or θ-pinch, is a type of fusion power reactor design.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,900
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Theta pinch quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Theta pinch card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Variance. Variance 79 · LDS Church and politics in the United States 76 · Theta pinch 72 · 1,4-Dioxane 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
1,4-Dioxane. 1,4-Dioxane 43,000 · Parking 25,000 · List of sweet potato cultivars 13,000 · Theta pinch 6,900 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The name refers to the configuration of currents used to confine the plasma fuel in the reactor, arranged to run around a cylinder in the direction normally denoted as theta in polar coordinate diagrams.
- The name was chosen to differentiate it from machines based on the pinch effect that arranged their currents running down the centre of the cylinder, these became known as z-pinch machines, referring to the Z-axis in cartesian coordinates.
- Theta-pinch was developed primarily in the United States, mostly at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a series of machines known as Scylla.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Theta pinch article was read about 6,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Theta pinch
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Theta pinch in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Damrong RajanubhabCommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 71
- Richard LuiCommon · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 75
- LDS Church and politics in the United StatesCommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 68
- Bridge strikeCommon · Science · ATK 70 DEF 74
- Battle of Jena–Auerstedt order of battleCommon · History · ATK 74 DEF 70
- Terminal Aérea metro stationCommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 73
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Theta pinch (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown LANL photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
