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Total magnetic moment of atom
Whenever I read about coordination compounds in my textbooks, I always find a discussion about spin-only magnetic moment which is given by $\sqrt{n(n+2)}$ BM,
Where $n$ is the number of unpaired ...
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How is the magnetic property of an element affected when the element is part of a compound?
Data on this site conveys that Neodymium is paramagnetic. Yet the Neodymium magnets out there make extremely strong magnets. I'm guessing these are not pure neodymium magnets but some kind of ...
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What is antisymmetric exchange? What is J-strain? Where does it come from?
I'm reading a paper1 by Sanakis, et al. that characterises the magnetic coupling in the $\ce{Fe3S4}$ clusters present in bacterial ferredoxin II and beef heart aconitase as arising through something ...
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What is it about the relationship between the $\ce{Fe^{2+}}$ and $\ce{Fe^{3+}}$ in magnetite that makes it diamagnetic?
Hematite is composed of $\ce{Fe2O3}$, and is paramagnetic, whereas magnetite is $\ce{Fe3O4}$ and is diamagnetic. Magnetite's nature is due to the presence of both $\ce{Fe^{2+}}$ and $\ce{Fe^{3+}}$ ...
