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Exxon got rid of its battery efforts in the early 1980s, and GM’s rare-earth permanent magnet business was sold to China in 1995.
—Henry Sanderson, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2024
Phoenix Tailings focuses on extracting neodymium, neodymium-praseodymium alloy, dysprosium, and ferro dysprosium alloy, which are rare earth metals used in permanent magnets for EVs, wind turbines, jet engines and other applications.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2024
Tariffs on permanent magnets, natural graphite, and certain other critical minerals are also set to rise to 25 percent from zero over the next couple of years.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 14 May 2024
His initial designs, as described in a series of patents, were for a pendulum clock with a permanent magnet as its bob (that’s the weight at the bottom of the pendulum).
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2024
The permanent magnet front motor delivers 212-hp and 236 lb-ft.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
The team’s design features a circular drum—the rotor—with an interior surface lined with permanent magnets.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2023
Front-drive variants get a permanent magnet motor with 212-hp which should be sufficient for the smaller Equinox.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
The motors are an evolution of the permanent magnet synchronous motors in the Taycan, with better water cooling, and the inverter uses silicon carbide instead of silicon.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1882, in the meaning defined above
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“Permanent magnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/permanent%20magnet. Accessed 27 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
permanent magnet
noun
: a magnet that retains its magnetism after removal of the magnetizing force
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