How to Use electromagnetic in a Sentence

electromagnetic

adjective
  • Like the bracelet, the cord emits an electromagnetic field the company claims will keep sharks up to six feet away.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • The range can sense when a pan is on it and uses an electromagnetic field to zap heat into the metal.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The photon carries the electromagnetic force, which gives rise to light.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Just a slice of electromagnetic wavelength and sight is ours, a blindness gone at the end of traveling through our nights.
    Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • The conclusion was that, at very high energy levels, the electromagnetic and weak forces were one and the same.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • Of all the electromagnetic waves in the universe, gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy.
    Sam McNeil, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • The corresponding force particles are called the W and Z bosons (for the weak force), gluons (for the strong force) and photons (for the electromagnetic force).
    Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The ions' electric charge means they can be contained in an electromagnetic trap that safeguard them, NASA said.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
  • And that really is just waves in the electromagnetic fields.
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
  • The signature piece of the MX Master 3 is its electromagnetic scroll wheel.
    Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020
  • The post is also wrong about electromagnetic fields playing a role.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Will quantum computing enable the study of electromagnetic waves in a plasma?—is so much Greek to a layperson.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In the primordial fluid, dark matter felt the pull of gravity, but not the electromagnetic push from light rays.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Okay, if particles can go through them, the fields can go as well—like the electromagnetic field and the gravitational field.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The electromagnetic field apparently refers to the high power line that can be seen in the photographs.
    Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The electromagnetic locks on their buildings stopped working—locks meant to keep abusers out, meant to keep the 87 women and children living inside safe.
    Lorena O'Neil, Marie Claire, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The Higgs boson and the Higgs field are analogous to photons and the electromagnetic field.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
  • But all electromagnetic waves travel at the same speed—the speed of light at 300 million meters per second. Election Sale.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Physicists have traced three of the four forces of nature — the electromagnetic force and the strong and weak nuclear forces — to their origins in quantum particles.
    Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • When the electromagnetic situation is in flux like that, things tend to go a little haywire on the surface.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • That means for the same size and payload, the DFD will perform similarly to the most powerful electromagnetic thruster.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The best, most practical way to avoid auto theft: Store your keys in a Faraday cage, which is an enclosure that blocks all electromagnetic fields.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2019
  • At an energy of around 246 GeV, the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces cease to be distinct.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2022
  • This stage helps to release electromagnetic frequencies stored in the body.
    Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2023
  • This suggests that rather than logging all the tosses and turns of a restless night’s sleep, as wearables now do, the new device would project an electromagnetic bubble over users.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • Those particles, now charged, can then be moved and sorted by the machine’s electromagnetic fields.
    Ramin Skibba, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021
  • In 1859 a solar storm whacked the Earth with a pulse of electromagnetic energy powerful enough to set telegraph stations on fire in Britain.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2022
  • The northern lights dance to an electromagnetic rave party.
    New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • People across Earth can expect more frequent and brighter northern lights to grace the sky as the sun nears the height of its 11-year cycle, making electromagnetic activity a more common occurrence.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Another method involves wrapping electromagnetic coils around plant stems to boost root development.
    Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024

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