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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transition temperature marking a change in the magnetic or ferroelectric properties of a substance, especially the change from ferromagnetism to paramagnetism.
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- noun
Curie temperature .
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- noun the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Pierre Curie.]
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