adjective
- having the property of being weakly attracted by a magnet and of becoming magnetized in the same direction as an applied magnetic field
Usage: physics; chemistry
Examples
- Aluminum is a paramagnetic material that is slightly attracted to magnets.
- The paramagnetic properties of oxygen make it useful in certain scientific applications.
- Iron oxide exhibits paramagnetic behavior at high temperatures.
- Scientists studied the paramagnetic response of the metal sample.
- Paramagnetic substances have unpaired electrons in their atomic structure.
- The researcher measured the paramagnetic susceptibility of the compound.