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  • adjective physics Describing the transition from an antiferromagnetic to a ferromagnetic state

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Examples

  • He wished he had the metamagnetic hand grapples with him.

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • How they must hate his metamagnetic boots, he thought!

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • Unlike ordinary magnetism, the metamagnetic field acted on all metals, even when they were in combination with other elements.

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • It was at that instant that he felt something slam against the sole of his heavy metamagnetic boot.

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • There were ropes, picks, and crampons, and sets of metamagnetic boots and grapples.

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • Instead of the normal space boots, he put on the special metamagnetic boots for mountain climbing.

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • With metamagnetic boots, Wayne thought, they'd be able to walk up the side of the mountain almost as easily as if it were flat.

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • In addition, the researchers showed that the magnetoelastic coupling serves as a precursor to a metamagnetic tricritical point with enhanced shape change effects.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Even with metamagnetic boots and grapples, we'll still have to use the old standbys. "

    The Judas Valley Randall Garrett 1957

  • "This is derived from a solid state transition such as a Curie point or, in this case, a metamagnetic transition, but is analagous to the evaporation of a volatile liquid to form a gas in a conventional gas compression fridge.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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