Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The phenomena exhibited by paramagnetic substances. See diamagnetism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physics) A property of materials which are not magnetized in the absence of an external magnetic field, but in which the magnetic moments of their constituents align with and enhance an applied magnetic field; the induced magnetic field of the substance is in direct proportion to the strength of the applied magnetic field; -- opposed to diamagnetic and contrasted with ferromagnetic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun physics the tendency of magnetic dipoles to align with an external magnetic field; materials that exhibit this tendency become temporary magnets

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  • noun materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed

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Examples

  • Pierre also discovered the effect of temperature on paramagnetism, which is now known as Curie's law.

    Curie, Pierre 2009

  • Examples of the latter case is the transition between liquid and gas at the critical point, and from ferromagnetism to paramagnetism in metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt.

    Press Release: The 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics 1982

  • Examples are the transition between liquid and gas and the transition between ferromagnetism and paramagnetism.

    Press Release: The 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics 1982

  • Néel has made many other contributions, such as investigations in the theory of magnetic domains and the discovery of the effect found in small particles, called super-paramagnetism.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 - Presentation Speech 1972

  • It was with similar methods that the paramagnetism of crystals deriving from the electronic spin was investigated by Gorter in

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • In his well known theory of magnetism P. Langevin, in 1905, took into account the Curie law and arrived again, theoretically, at the difference between the origins of diamagnetism and paramagnetism.

    Pierre Curie 1923

  • Assertion: The paramagnetism of Cu + ion is zero. magnetons where S is the total spin. both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

    LearnHub Activities 2009

  • Assertion: The paramagnetism of Cu + ion is zero. magnetons where S is the total spin. both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

    LearnHub Activities 2008

  • Assertion: The paramagnetism of Cu + ion is zero. magnetons where S is the total spin. both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

    LearnHub Activities 2008

  • Assertion: The paramagnetism of Cu + ion is zero. magnetons where S is the total spin. both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

    LearnHub Activities 2008

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