ferromagnetic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- ferromagnetism noun
Etymology
Origin of ferromagnetic
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When the north and south poles of an iron atom line up, the atom becomes ferromagnetic and strongly magnetized.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
Scientists from Waseda University have recently studied the random walk-behaviors of chiral skyrmions by simulating their dynamics within a ferromagnetic layer surrounded by chiral flower-like obstacles.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024
They then studied the random-walk dynamics of the thermally activated skyrmion interacting with the chiral flower-like obstacle in a ferromagnetic layer, which could create topology-dependent outcomes.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024
The team further elucidated the ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic phase selection rule of magnetic interactions by analyzing the relative orientation of magnetic moments between nearest-neighbour and next-nearest neighbour sites.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
From the experiments of Faraday it appears that all matter is subject to the magnetic force as universally as it is to the gravitating force, arranging itself into three divisions, the ferromagnetic, paramagnetic, and diamagnetic.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
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