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CMB polarization is a faint directional pattern created when quadrupole variations in the radiation field scatter from free electrons.
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Thomson scattering polarizes radiation when incoming intensity has an angular quadrupole.
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E-mode polarization and lensing-generated B modes have been detected.
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