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| | Hysteresis and magnetic susceptibility (from rock) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Hysteresis is the variation of magnetization with applied field and illustrates the ability of a material to retain its magnetization, even after an applied field is removed. |
 | | The magnetic susceptibility of a material, commonly symbolized by, is equal to the ratio of the magnetization M within the material to the applied magnetic field strength H, or = M/H. This ratio, strictly speaking, is the volume susceptibility,... |
 | | When ferromagnetic materials are placed within a coil of wire carrying an electric current, the magnetizing field, or magnetic field strength H, caused by the current forces some or all of the atomic magnets in the material to align with the field. |
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