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Give four properties of diamagnetic substances

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12 Years agoGrade Upto college level
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12 Years ago
Some important properties are:
  1. When suspended in a uniform magnetic field they set their longest axis at right angles to the field.
  2. In a non-uniform magnetic material, these substances move from stronger parts of the field to the weaker parts. For e.g.,. when diamagnetic liquid is put in a watch glass placed on the two pole pieces of an electromagnet and current is switched on the liquid accumulates on the sides.
  3. A diamagnetic liquid in a U shaped tube is depressed, when subjected to a magnetic field.
  4. The lines of force do not prefer to pass through the specimen, since the ability of a material to permit the passage of magnetic lines of force through it is less.
  5. The permeability of the substance, that is,mr< 1.
  6. The substance loses its magnetization as soon as the magnetizing field is removed.
  7. Such specimen cannot be easily magnetized and so their susceptibility is negative.
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IIT Roorkee
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