Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The magnetic field intensity needed to reduce the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material from complete saturation to zero, usually measured in teslas.
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- noun uncountable The quality of being
coercive - noun physics, materials science The intensity of the magnetic field which must be applied in order to reduce the
magnetization of aferromagnetic material to zero after the magnetization of the sample has been driven tosaturation
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Examples
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Just like the goldfish growing to fill the space not really! that second CCC is like a gas that is expanding to fill the space...the poor little cupcake molecules are losing their coercivity and dissolving into a sheet of entropy!
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Quantitatively if you so wish i.e., what is the coercivity of the magnetic field required to change the state of an individual bit on the disc.
The Silliest Thing Yet, or Sheer Genius? - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Due to the crystalline anisotropy, the ultra-fine barium-ferrite particles have high coercivity for superior performance high density recording.
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"Fujifilm is the first media manufacturer to overcome this challenge of maintaining high coercivity with the development of its micrified BaFe particle, which delivers superior storage with lower noise and higher frequency characteristics than other metal particles."
DrunkenData.com 2010
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This advanced development offers to keep high coercivity (using micro fine particles), lower noise, higher frequency characteristics and superior storage performance than metal particles.
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"Fujifilm is the first media manufacturer to overcome this challenge of maintaining high coercivity with the development of its micrified BaFe particle, which delivers superior storage with lower noise and higher frequency characteristics than other metal particles."
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"This process of metal particle micrification becomes challenging because of the risks of losing the high coercivity that is essential for high recording density," said Norio Shibata, President & CEO, Fujifilm Recording Media USA, Inc.
DrunkenData.com 2010
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Due to the crystalline anisotropy, the ultra-fine barium-ferrite particles have high coercivity for superior performance high density recording.
DrunkenData.com 2010
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Due to the crystalline anisotropy, the ultra-fine barium-ferrite particles have high coercivity for superior performance high density recording.
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"This process of metal particle micrification becomes challenging because of the risks of losing the high coercivity that is essential for high recording density," said Norio Shibata, President & CEO, Fujifilm Recording Media USA, Inc.
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