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n. - The physical property of being attracted to iron; The process that makes a substance attracted to iron (temporarily or permanently); The extent or degree to which something is attracted to iron.

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  • The sound information is entered in the tape in the form of a more or less intense magnetisation in the running direction of the tape and thus stored.
  • The bar as a whole, nevertheless, exhibits no external magnetisation.
  • One layer is a permanent magnet whose direction of magnetisation does not change.
  • In both cases the force scales with particle size, since the particle magnetisation
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