How to Use electromagnetic in a Sentence

electromagnetic

adjective
  • Below the hood, there's a magnesium engine block and an ingenious electromagnetic gearbox that were both ahead of their time.
    Neal Bascomb, Car and Driver, 31 May 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
  • The signature piece of the MX Master 3 is its electromagnetic scroll wheel.
    Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020
  • Some electric toothbrushes and other small devices, such as mobile phones, can already be topped up in this way using a process called electromagnetic induction.
    The Economist, 16 May 2020
  • Other advice includes using a personal shark shield -- a device that creates an electromagnetic field to deter sharks -- and paying attention to shark signage.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 24 June 2020
  • The nitrogen vacancy centers, primed by the electromagnetic coils, responded by emitting red light at a brightness that depended on the sample’s magnetism.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • And that really is just waves in the electromagnetic fields.
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The neutron’s altered spin slightly changes both the electromagnetic and strong forces, but those changes happen to cancel each other out almost exactly.
    Quanta Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Cooktops that use electromagnetic induction to heat pots and pans have been available in kitchens for years, but Midea is one of the first companies to leverage that technology to wirelessly deliver power to appliances.
    Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2024

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