Curie-Weiss law

noun

-ˈwīs-,

-ˈvīs-

: a law of magnetism: the susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the excess of its temperature above the Curie point, below which it ceases to be paramagnetic

Word History

Etymology

after Pierre Curie & Pierre-Ernest Weiss †1940 French physicists

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