paramagnet
Noun
Meaning
magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it
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In this narrowest sense, the only pure paramagnet is a dilute gas of monatomic hydrogen atoms.
This explains why superparamagnetic nanoparticles have a much larger susceptibility than standard paramagnets: they behave exactly as a paramagnet with a huge magnetic moment.
Even for iron it is not uncommon to say that iron becomes a paramagnet above its relatively high Curie-point.
In principle any system that contains atoms, ions, or molecules with unpaired spins can be called a paramagnet, but the interactions between them need to be carefully considered.
The bulk properties of such a system resembles that of a paramagnet, but on a microscopic level they are ordered.