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The most evident magnetic materials are iron (Fe), cobalt (Co) and nickel (Ni). At room temperature they exhibit a natural magnetism or spontaneous magnetization and therefore are used as permanent magnets. If heated, however, such materials lose their natural magnetization at a given temperature, called critical temperature T c or Curie temperature, and become paramagnetic.
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de Oliveira, M.J. (2013). Magnetic Systems. In: Equilibrium Thermodynamics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36549-2_13
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