The Stern-Gerlach experiment of 1922 found that when silver atoms (whose spin came entirely from one unpaired electron in the outer shell) passed through a strong inhomogeneous magnetic field, the beam split into exactly two lines, demonstrating that spin angular momentum is quantized.
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“when you boil silver atoms in a vacuum out of a furnace and pass them through a very strong magnetic field you find that the beam of silver atoms splits in two”
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