[13]The Curie point is the temperature at which a material’s crystalline structure radically changes and becomes less orderly.
[14]Ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism are very similar. The equations describing these phenomena are almost identical except that capacitance is replaced by its magnetic analog, inductance, and so on.
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