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- adjective Not
magnetized .
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Examples
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Since the Earth itself acts as a huge bar magnet, having a magnetic north pole and south pole, when a piece of unmagnetized material is placed in a north to south direction, it results in magnetizing it due to the magnetic field of the Earth.
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When an unmagnetized piece of steel or iron is placed beside a magnet, it becomes magnetized.
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When an unmagnetized piece of steel or iron is rubbed with a magnet in a north to south direction, it gets magnetized.
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If the current was interrupted, the magnet immediately became unmagnetized.
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If the current was interrupted, the magnet immediately became unmagnetized.
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He could tell at a glance when she is in that condition of unstable equilibrium in which a rough word is like blow to her, and the touch of unmagnetized fingers reverses all her nervous currents.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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The slight bulk of the _Planetara_, floating in space, had no appreciable gravity pull on Snap's body, and the impulse of his step as he came to the unmagnetized area of the corridor had thrown him to the ceiling.
Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922
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"When the battery contact was first made, then an unmagnetized needle introduced, and lastly the battery contact broken, the needle was found magnetized to an equal degree apparently with the first; but the poles were of the contrary kinds."
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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As the magnetized iron attracts the unmagnetized, so does the loyal soul charged with truth attract all other loyal souls.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 1856
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He could tell at a glance when she is in that condition of unstable equilibrium in which a rough word is like a blow to her, and the touch of unmagnetized fingers reverses all her nervous currents.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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