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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A transition temperature marking a change in the magnetic or ferroelectric properties of a substance, especially the change from ferromagnetism to paramagnetism.

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  • noun Curie temperature.

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  • noun the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Pierre Curie.]

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