FERRITE

Ferrite

Ferrites are chemical compounds consisting of ceramic materials with iron oxide as their principal component. Many of them are magnetic materials and they are used to make permanent magnets, ferrite cores for transformers, and in various other applications.

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ferrite

Noun

  1. The interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron.
  2. Any of a class of metal oxides which show ferrimagnetism; used in transformers, inductors, antennas, recording heads, microwave devices, motors and loudspeakers.
  3. The anion FeO22-, and any of the salts (formally derived from the unknown ferrous acid) derived from it.


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