The property of a body of substance having a high susceptibility to magnetisation, the strength of which depends on that of the applied magnetising field, and which may persist after removal of the applied field. This is the kind of magnetism displayed by iron, and is associated with parallel magnetic alignment of neighbouring atoms.
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