How to Use ferromagnetic in a Sentence
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Though coins are partially made of nickel (which is ferromagnetic), there's not enough in US coins to work that way.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 9 June 2021
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When the iron is cold, a movable permanent magnet in the switch is drawn to the ferromagnetic tip, closing the switch and sending power to the heating element.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2017
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It’s based on the physics of ferromagnetic materials, which lose their magnetism when heated above a certain temperature, known as the Curie point.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2017
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During the mission, a servicer craft will release a target craft with a ferromagnetic docking plate and capture it using magnets.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Dec. 2020
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The researchers first used a tiny glass needle, its tip measuring only 10 microns across, to inject a single droplet of ferromagnetic fluid between the embryo’s cells.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2018
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In the mid-1960s, two physicists heralding from opposite sides of the globe independently derived a proof that explained why electrons should align and create a ferromagnetic state.
—Marcus Woo, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2019
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These ferromagnetic granules are situated in the inter-cell brain space.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2015
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There’s a reason why you’re told to remove all ferromagnetic metal objects before entering a room where an MRI machine is located.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
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These are made of some type of ferromagnetic material like iron, nickel, alnico, or neodymium.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
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Because the photons are emitted so close to the ferromagnetic material, that magnetism is enough to induce photon polarization.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
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The only real danger is that posed by metal objects (specifically ferromagnetic ones), which in the presence of a strong magnetic field become deadly projectiles.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2010
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Perhaps most surprising, the substance appears to be ferromagnetic, behaving like a permanent magnet at temperatures up to 125°C—a first for carbon.
—W. Wayt Gibbs, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2019
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Most substances, however, are not ferromagnetic at all.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 23 June 2021
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This view was dramatically changed by the discovery that living cells have the ability to build nanocrystals of the ferromagnetic mineral magnetite – basically, tiny iron magnets.
—Shinsuke Shimojo, Daw-An Wu, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2019
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The team uses as a base a soft, flexible material (silicone rubber) embedded with ferromagnetic particles (a neodymium-iron-boron alloy) — little bits of stuff that react to magnetic fields.
—Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2018
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That means it can be magnetized and then attracted or repelled by other magnetic materials (iron, for example, is ferromagnetic).
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023
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But luckily, the indentation process also gave the device a ferromagnetic property.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
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MPTMs are composed of ferromagnetic neodymium-iron-boron microparticles embedded in pure gallium.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
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The MagPieR microrobotis composed of two distinct layers, an upper using a ferromagnetic metal (such as nickel) and a lower using a piezoelectric material.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
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But unlike others, which often operate using hydraulics, this robot uses flexible magnetic materials, called ferromagnetic domains, to move around.
—Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2019
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Normally, ferromagnetic materials like iron feature aligned spins.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 July 2022
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