How to Use ferromagnetic in a Sentence

ferromagnetic

adjective

• Though coins are partially made of nickel (which is ferromagnetic), there's not enough in US coins to work that way.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 9 June 2021
• When the iron is cold, a movable permanent magnet in the switch is drawn to the ferromagnetic tip, closing the switch and sending power to the heating element.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2017
• It’s based on the physics of ferromagnetic materials, which lose their magnetism when heated above a certain temperature, known as the Curie point.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2017
• During the mission, a servicer craft will release a target craft with a ferromagnetic docking plate and capture it using magnets.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Dec. 2020
• The researchers first used a tiny glass needle, its tip measuring only 10 microns across, to inject a single droplet of ferromagnetic fluid between the embryo’s cells.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2018
• In the mid-1960s, two physicists heralding from opposite sides of the globe independently derived a proof that explained why electrons should align and create a ferromagnetic state.
  — Marcus Woo, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2019
• These ferromagnetic granules are situated in the inter-cell brain space.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2015
• There’s a reason why you’re told to remove all ferromagnetic metal objects before entering a room where an MRI machine is located.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• These are made of some type of ferromagnetic material like iron, nickel, alnico, or neodymium.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
• The body housed an onboard accelerometer to measure impact deceleration as well as a ferromagnetic ball so that the impactor could be dropped from varying heights via an electromagnet.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
• Because the photons are emitted so close to the ferromagnetic material, that magnetism is enough to induce photon polarization.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
• The only real danger is that posed by metal objects (specifically ferromagnetic ones), which in the presence of a strong magnetic field become deadly projectiles.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2010
• Perhaps most surprising, the substance appears to be ferromagnetic, behaving like a permanent magnet at temperatures up to 125°C—a first for carbon.
  — W. Wayt Gibbs, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2019
• Most substances, however, are not ferromagnetic at all.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• This view was dramatically changed by the discovery that living cells have the ability to build nanocrystals of the ferromagnetic mineral magnetite – basically, tiny iron magnets.
  — Shinsuke Shimojo, Daw-An Wu, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2019
• What that spacing does is provide a stable ferromagnetic structure in the crystal, which in turn promotes an inherent characteristic of the crystal called magnetic anisotropy.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
• The team uses as a base a soft, flexible material (silicone rubber) embedded with ferromagnetic particles (a neodymium-iron-boron alloy) — little bits of stuff that react to magnetic fields.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2018
• That means it can be magnetized and then attracted or repelled by other magnetic materials (iron, for example, is ferromagnetic).
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023
• But luckily, the indentation process also gave the device a ferromagnetic property.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
• MPTMs are composed of ferromagnetic neodymium-iron-boron microparticles embedded in pure gallium.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
• The MagPieR microrobotis composed of two distinct layers, an upper using a ferromagnetic metal (such as nickel) and a lower using a piezoelectric material.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
• But unlike others, which often operate using hydraulics, this robot uses flexible magnetic materials, called ferromagnetic domains, to move around.
  — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2019
• Normally, ferromagnetic materials like iron feature aligned spins.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024