Text: From: David P. Lentini,OneNet Los Altos Diamagnetism is the showing of magnetic properties on a small scale. For instance, liquid oxygen shows diamagnetic properties. It is influenced by magnetic fields because the oxygen molecule has two unpaired electrons, so that it actually has a small magnetic moment of its own. This is in contrast to ferromagnetism, which pertains to the magnetic properties of substances like iron, which show magnetism on a larger scale. That definition seems misleading to me. Diamagnetic materials are defined as those which are repelled my magnetic fields. These substances have a suseptibility c

See Also: PARAMAGNETISM; OXYGEN

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