Curie's law
English
Etymology
After Pierre Curie, French physicist.
Proper noun
- (physics) A law which shows that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic dipole is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature; the basis of operation of magnetic thermometers.
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