demagnetizev.
/diːˈmaɡnɪtʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To deprive of magnetic quality.
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1839 Brit. Pat. 8255 2 My said invented improvements consists [sic] in employing, as my prime movers, a series of electro-magnets, which are alternately..magnetized and demagnetized.
1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 74 Whenever any metal susceptible of magnetism is..de-magnetized, its temperature is raised.
1887 Times 9 Sept. 14/5 Hot air traversing the discs and rolls demagnetizes the discs.
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1850 W. Gregory Lett. Animal Magn. 106 This she ascribed to her not having been demagnetised, and it continued next morning.
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deˈmagnetizing n.
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1843 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 27 The de-magnetizings produced by operations which serve also to magnetize.
deˌmagnetiˈzation n. the action or process of demagnetizing.
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Demagnetization.
1872 F. L. Pope Electr. Telegr. ii. 23 The act of demagnetization requires time, but is effected more rapidly than magnetization.
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