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PARAMAGNETISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paramagnetism mean?
• PARAMAGNETISM (noun)
The noun PARAMAGNETISM has 1 sense:
1. materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed
Familiarity information: PARAMAGNETISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("paramagnetism" is a kind of...):
magnetic attraction; magnetic force; magnetism (attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force)
Context examples
A technique applicable to the wide variety of substances which exhibit paramagnetism because of the magnetic moments of unpaired electrons.
(Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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