How to Use magnetization in a Sentence

magnetization

noun
  • Watch magnetization is easy to diagnose at home: Place your watch near a compass.
    Rachel Felder, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • Several clips claimed that the magnetization was proof that the vaccines were, in fact, microchipping people.
    Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 10 June 2021
  • An external magnetic field would normally tend to align all the atomic bar magnets in the same direction, but in the case of a skyrmion, the magnetization of the atoms is arrayed in a twisted vortex.
    Ron Cowen, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2013
  • The curve describing the magnetization does not have any breaks and is, in the language of mathematics, continuous.
    New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • At the same time, other possible sources of the magnetization have been ruled out: Allende and its fellows were not magnetized by a field produced in the sun, or by the dusty disk itself, or by transient plumes around impacts.
    Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
  • The exact two-dimensional solution for the Ising model shows that at the phase transition point, there are no sudden jumps in the magnetization as the temperature changes.
    New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • Mars does not have a global magnetic field, only pockets of magnetization.
    Christian Schroeder, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2015
  • In Florida, Sebastian and Tan noticed that their measurement probe had an extra slot with a diving-board-style cantilever on it, which could be used to measure quantum oscillations in the magnetization of their crystals.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2015
  • In experiments, the researchers had IBM‘s quantum computer model the dynamics of the spins of electrons in a material to predict its properties, such as magnetization.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2023
  • Since the 1980s, physicists have discovered a number of states of matter that derive odd properties from topological phenomena, such as the way that magnetization—pictured as a field of arrows—winds around a material.
    Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2018
  • When hit by lightning, these rocks would undergo a process called isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM), which altered their magnetic properties.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Those maps were combined with resistivity measurements and, later, the magnetization data from bore samples.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Researchers studying magnetization discovered that renormalization wasn’t about infinities at all.
    Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Different mineral populations acquire their magnetization at different temperatures.
    Craig Robert Martin, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2020

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