Find a term from the labs, understand the process behind it, and see how it appears in the landscape. Each entry connects an explanation with a real observation and a model you can explore.
Term
Curie point
The temperature above which a material loses its spontaneous ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic ordering; about 580 °C for pure magnetite.
What to look for
Magnetite, photographed in the Smithsonian collection. Pure magnetite loses its spontaneous magnetic ordering near 580 °C, its Curie temperature. This specimen photograph shows the mineral, not a temperature measurement.
