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[โ€“] frostysauce 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a second form of magnetism?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

apparently it's one of those "technically correct but also obviously nonsense" things: there's no different type of electromagnetism, but specific materials can be magnetic in different ways, dimagnetic/ferromagnetic/paramagnetic, and the stuff the article is about seems to be at least the fourth kind... urgh