Definitions for diamagnetic

diamagnetic di·a·mag·net·ic

Spelling: [dahy-uh-mag-net-ik]
IPA: /ˌdaɪ ə mægˈnɛt ɪk/

Diamagnetic is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 747 anagrams from letters in diamagnetic (aacdegiimnt).

Definitions for diamagnetic

adjective

  1. of or relating to a class of substances, as bismuth and copper, whose permeability is less than that of a vacuum: in a magnetic field, their induced magnetism is in a direction opposite to that of iron.

Origin of diamagnetic

First recorded in 1840-50; dia- + magnetic

Examples for diamagnetic

Nitrogen is neither paramagnetic nor diamagnetic, and is equivalent to a vacuum.

These rays impinge upon a diamagnetic surface which is concave.

A diamagnetic body is one which is not so magnetic as the medium in which it is suspended.

By a similar arrangement the feeble attractions and repulsions of the diamagnetic force have been made manifest.

Hence the deflection produced by these metals is due to their diamagnetic, and not to their conductive capacity.

The majority of physicists, however, at the present time, do not believe in the existence of a diamagnetic polarity.

Water is diamagnetic, sulphate of iron is strongly magnetic.

The 20th series contains an account of his researches on the universal action of magnetism and diamagnetic bodies.

The first group is paramagnetic and positive; the corresponding one is diamagnetic and negative.

Bodies that point equatorially, or are diamagnetic, like Faraday's heavy glass.

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