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Curie’s law
Cu·rie's law


noun 
Definition:
 
principle concerning paramagnetism: the law of physics stating that there is an inverse proportionality between the effect of a magnetic field on a paramagnetic material and its absolute temperature
[After Pierre Curie]
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