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The Neutron

In Our Time: Science

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The Importance of Neutrons in Magnetic Devices

Neutrons have magnetic properties, you can imagine them being a little bit like compass needles. And that allows us to probe the structure of the magnetic character of materials. The way in which neutrons point up or down are scattered by the atomic magnets in a magnetic material tells us about how all the atomic magnets are connected. That tells us basically about how the magnets we put into important functional devices work and how we can design better magnets.

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