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Cu′rie-Weiss′ law′
(kyŏŏr′ē wīs′, -vīs′),USA pronunciation [Physics.]
- Physicsthe law that the susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference of its temperature and the Curie point and that the substance ceases to be paramagnetic below the Curie point.
- named after P. Curie and Pierre Weiss (1865–1940), French physicist