How to Use electromagnetic in a Sentence

electromagnetic

adjective
  • Like the bracelet, the cord emits an electromagnetic field the company claims will keep sharks up to six feet away.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • The range can sense when a pan is on it and uses an electromagnetic field to zap heat into the metal.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The photon carries the electromagnetic force, which gives rise to light.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Just a slice of electromagnetic wavelength and sight is ours, a blindness gone at the end of traveling through our nights.
    Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • The corresponding force particles are called the W and Z bosons (for the weak force), gluons (for the strong force) and photons (for the electromagnetic force).
    Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The post is also wrong about electromagnetic fields playing a role.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Higgs boson and the Higgs field are analogous to photons and the electromagnetic field.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
  • When the electromagnetic situation is in flux like that, things tend to go a little haywire on the surface.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • At an energy of around 246 GeV, the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces cease to be distinct.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2022
  • This stage helps to release electromagnetic frequencies stored in the body.
    Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In 1859 a solar storm whacked the Earth with a pulse of electromagnetic energy powerful enough to set telegraph stations on fire in Britain.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2022
  • The northern lights dance to an electromagnetic rave party.
    New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • The Army might also look for means to reduce radar and electromagnetic signatures.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2023
  • The photo at the top of this story shows a helicopter dangling a loop that generates an electromagnetic field.
    WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The Standard Model of particle physics is science’s current best framework for the basic laws of the universe and describes three basic forces: the electromagnetic force, the weak force and the strong force.
    John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Researchers in snow shoes probed the ground with electromagnetic equipment to determine how the glacier is stratified.
    Luigi Navarra, ajc, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Each module of the platform consists of two legs designed to function as a two-legged robot, which is able to walk on a metal pipe using electromagnetic feet.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2023
  • For example, an electron—a ripple in the electron field—disturbs the electromagnetic field around it.
    Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
  • No cranking, no revving, just the subtle purr of electromagnetic power.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2022
  • The asynchronous motor on the rear axle now uses 14 coils to generate its electromagnetic field, up from 12.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 8 Nov. 2022
  • What’s different is that an electromagnetic field below the glass of the cooktop surface creates the heat directly into the pot or pan.
    Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • Only nine of those objects had enough data on their electromagnetic emissions to be useful for study.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
  • Just as electromagnetic fields arise from moving electrons, strong fields arise from moving quarks and gluons.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
  • The sauna blanket features to look for For starters, make sure the sauna blanket has low electromagnetic fields (EMFs), otherwise known as radiation.
    Kylie Gilbert, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Metamaterials can be featured on the walls and windows of smart buildings to control and route electromagnetic waves at will.
    Andrea Alù, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
  • That device, called SkyTEM, sent out electromagnetic pulses that traveled below the surface and bounced back up again, similar to a radar signal.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2022
  • To map the resources, workers will use an airborne electromagnetic survey, known as overflights.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 5 May 2023
  • For its part, the U.S. Army is experimenting with using large airbursts or electromagnetic pulses to guard against the eventual emergence of the drone swarm.
    Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The joints are the weakest parts of an HVDC cable and must be able to withstand the high temperatures and electromagnetic fields produced by the electricity-conducting core.
    WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022

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