How to Use electromagnetism in a Sentence

electromagnetism

noun
  • Locals worry that electromagnetism and even glare can pose a health risk.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Induction stoves use electromagnetism to heat up pots and pans (and have glass tops).
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Gravity pins us to Earth and pulls us around the sun, while electromagnetism keeps the lights on.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • To describe electromagnetism, a gauge group known as U(1) was introduced, and this is still used at the present.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Most of them boil down to adding a new force to nature’s repertoire of gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces.
    — Tom Siegfried, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2020
  • If electromagnetism were only a little stronger, then even in the hearts of stars nuclei would not be banged together hard enough to bring forth carbon.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • The components of electromagnetism are thus quantum in origin.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
  • Of course, there applications of electromagnetism in everyday life are vast.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Phillips, for example, suspects that strange metals call for an emergent form of electromagnetism that doesn’t rely on whole electrons.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Phillips, for example, suspects that strange metals call for an emergent form of electromagnetism that doesn’t rely on whole electrons.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In electromagnetism, both like and opposite charges exchange photons.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Gravity and electromagnetism, if the graviton or photon are massive, will no longer be infinite-range forces.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Mostly impervious to normal forces like electromagnetism, these particles drift through the world, and through us, like ghosts through a wall.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The system could improve devices that use magnets, as well as enable a range of new experiments that probe electromagnetism.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Alas, that same electric charge makes positrons susceptible to tiny electric fields—and electromagnetism eclipses gravity’s force.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Here are the groundbreaking contributions physicists made to the field of electromagnetism.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • First came gravity, then strong nuclear, and lastly electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force split from each other.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • These use electromagnetism to directly heat up a pan, rather than getting an element hot through electrical resistance and then heating up the pan that way.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 14 Sep. 2021
  • For example, photons are the force particle in electromagnetism.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Faraday was the first to propose a unification of gravity and electromagnetism.
    — Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The problem was that at high energies, two of the forces of nature, electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force, merge together into a single force.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
  • And the thing that connects our civilization together is electromagnetism.
    — National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2017
  • These were the relatively familiar forces of electromagnetism and gravity as well as two forces that act on subatomic particles, the strong force and the weak force.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
  • At high enough energies, the fundamental forces — gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces — seem to become equal.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • If dense, massive atomic nuclei were orbited by electrons — and if that was the structure of the atom — then the laws of electromagnetism presented an enormous problem.
    — Big Think, 21 June 2024
  • Whereas electromagnetism has only two charges—positive or negative—QCD has three—red, green or blue.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Calculating correlation functions in the photon field, for instance, can give you the textbook laws of quantum electromagnetism.
    — Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021
  • Quantum field theory, which had been used successfully to explain electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force, wasn’t cutting it, so physicists were eager for something new.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Over the 20th century, physicists gradually made sense of electromagnetism and other forces using this framework.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • It was left to Michael Faraday, in the first half of the 19th century, to define the modern understanding of electromagnetism.
    — Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 21 June 2018

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