ferromagnet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ferromagnet
Example Sentences
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Crucially, the cavity vacuum fluctuations alone are sufficient to change the material's magnetic order from a zigzag antiferromagnet into a ferromagnet.
From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2023
In a ferromagnet such as iron, all the atoms act like little magnets and they all point in the same direction to magnetize the entire material.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2020
The giant anomalous Hall effect in the ferromagnet Fe3Sn2—a frustrated kagome metal.
From Nature • Mar. 18, 2018
Combining a ferromagnet with an electromagnet can produce particularly strong magnetic effects.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
But the superconductor itself would still perturb an external magnetic field, so the researchers coated its external side with an ordinary ferromagnet -- the material that kitchen fridge magnets are made of.
From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 2012
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