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Scientists Have Confirmed the Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago

apparently it's one of those "technically correct but also obviously nonsense" things: there's no different type of electromagnetism, but specific materials can be magnetic in different ways, dimagnetic/ferromagnetic/paramagnetic, and the stuff the article is about seems to be at least the fourth kind... urgh

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