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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Cooperative magnetism?

Also known as: ferromagnetism · antiferromagnetism

Definition 18.25 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 18 — Electronic Spectra and Magnetism of Complexes

In ferromagnetism the spins of neighbouring paramagnetic centres align parallel through an exchange interaction, giving a spontaneous magnetisation below the Curie temperature; in antiferromagnetism they align antiparallel, and the susceptibility falls below the Néel temperature.

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