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n. - Phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force.

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  • Fortunately, diamagnetism is too weak to cause shipwreck in this way.
  • In science, I would ask, is "diamagnetism" correctly explained by terming it "the property of any substance whereby it turns itself, when freely suspended, at right...
  • Professor Main, head of physics at the University of Nottingham, worked on a project to levitate a frog using an effect called diamagnetism: ‘By changing the energy of...
  • Faraday didn't call for a vote when he developed the laws of electrolysis or discovered diamagnetism.
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