How to Use magnetic field in a Sentence

magnetic field

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  • This allowed the researchers to map the magnetic field lines of the black hole, per the statement.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In these parts, lines that guide the sun’s magnetic field seem to blow outward.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
  • What about the magnetic field—does that get canceled too?
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • So the first question is: How far out does that magnetic field go?
    — Maggie Chen, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2022
  • When the solar cycle peaks, the sun’s magnetic field flips as well.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The star’s magnetic field pulled the metals toward the star, which led to the presence of the scar, the finding has suggested.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Sunspots result from areas of the sun that have stronger magnetic fields.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • Thus, the orientation of the magnetic field flips, too.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 May 2022
  • The aurora forms when the particles flowing from the sun get caught up in the Earth's magnetic field.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • The post is correct that Earth's magnetic field has weakened.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The rotation is induced by the magnetic field straightening across the poles of the rotor.
    — David Blekhman, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • That provided a map of the magnetic field, according to an astronomer who led the study.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Earth's magnetic field is strongest near the polar regions.
    — The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Every 11 years, the sun’s magnetic field changes entirely, with the north and south poles switching places.
    — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • With no external magnetic field, the two energy states in this valley are the same.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In this new view of Earth’s flow, a wave’s height corresponds to a magnetic field and its speed corresponds to an electric field.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • Earth’s magnetic field is spun up by the heavy, molten, spinning iron core of the planet, and it’s bombarded by the competing forces ejected by the sun.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • The one that measures the magnetic field’s directionconsists of a metal core wrapped in two wire coils.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Neutron stars are born spinning, and the rotating magnetic field emits beams of light in the form of radio waves, X-rays, or gamma rays.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The aurora borealis is a glow produced by electrons that float down to the Earth’s magnetic field from space.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • When the sun is at its quietest, with nary a sunspot, its magnetic field is strong and orderly, with a tidy magnetic pole at the star’s top and bottom.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Essentially, the molten iron at the core of our planet helps to determine where Earth’s magnetic field downs down.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This mission will use two spacecraft to measure plasma and magnetic fields around the red planet.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Mars lacks a magnetic field today, but meteorites from the planet show traces of an ancient field.
    — Byeric Hand, science.org, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Sunspots don't care which direction the magnetic field is pointing.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Skyrmions pop up in disks of certain materials when they are pierced by magnetic fields.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
  • When the sun is dormant, its magnetic field is a dipole, like a bar magnet with positive and negative ends.
    — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The strength of the dipole governs a process that eventually flips the polarity of the magnetic field, which causes the solar cycle.
    — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Most of those particles are deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field.
    — Randi Selvey, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • After all, the Red Planet has no global magnetic field, which plays a key role in the formation of auroras on Earth.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 May 2022

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