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by ealloc
4642 days ago
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This explains it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature In the ferromagnetic phase, the atoms are magnetically aligned and their magnetic fields adds up. If you increase the temperature past a certain point though, the atoms are jiggled enough that they can no longer stay aligned and they 'point' in random directions, and their magnetic fields cancel out. This is a big problem in hard drives: If you increase the temerature of a hard drive the magnetic regions no longer maintain their magnetization and your data gets erased. A lot of hard drive technology (eg 'perpedicular recording') has been developed to solve this problem. |
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