Curie's law

English

Etymology

After Pierre Curie, French physicist.

Proper noun

Curie's law

  1. (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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