demagnetize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Because electric motors often operate at high temperatures, thermal effects can also partially demagnetize these materials, making the energy loss problem even more complicated.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
Pumping too much current into the device would cause it to overheat and demagnetize.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
The geophysicists were able to determine what that paleointensity was by heating single crystals to demagnetize them, and then reheating the samples in the presence of a magnetic field to impart magnetization.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 15, 2019
"We had to demagnetize the building," she says, a painstaking process that required passing an electromagnet over every square meter of the walls.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 29, 2017
Also tell him to have Davis rig up a demagnetizer large enough to demagnetize the motors of a transport plane and bring it down here to fix up General Merton's ship.
From The Great Drought by Meek, S. P. (Sterner St. Paul)
That meant she ensured that ships were demagnetized so they were less susceptible to damage from magnetic mines.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
The researchers started with a magnetoelectric material made up of a piezoelectric layer of lead zirconium titanate sandwiched between two magnetorestrictive layers of metallic glass alloys, or Metglas, which can be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023
What Kushner’s book really is, however, is a portrait of a man whose moral compass has been demagnetized.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
Conversely, a permanent magnet can be demagnetized by hard blows or by heating it in the absence of another magnet.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
In long pieces of iron the mutual action of the various parts tends to keep in them any magnetization that they may possess; hence they are less readily demagnetized.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
The researchers measured energy transfer involving exchange interactions, demagnetizing effects, and entropy.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
In response, Apple says: "Smartphones and other items contain magnets or components that may have a risk of demagnetizing low coercivity cards. To prevent this from happening, users should keep these cards stored separately."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024
In a 28-year career as head of a series of enterprises, the Utah-born Jarvis ranged from making electric irons to demagnetizing the hulls of combat ships to protect them from mines.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has already been explained that the ends or poles of a polar magnet exert a demagnetizing power upon the mass of the metal in the interior of the bar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
An air gap in a magnetic circuit always tends to hasten demagnetizing.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
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