Meanings
nounCurie point (plural Curie points)
plural Curie points
- physicalchemistryCurie temperature.
When the lavas cooled they would pass through the Curie point, and their magnetic minerals would become magnetised.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 143
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
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