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PERMEAMETER

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 176 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERMEAMETER  , an

instrument for rapidly measuring the permeability of a sample of iron or steel with sufficient accuracy for many commercial purposes . The name was first applied by S . P . Thompson to an apparatus devised by himself in 189o, which indicates the
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mechanical force required to detach one end of the sample, arranged as the core of a straight electromagnet, from an iron yoke of
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special form; when this force is known, the permeability can be easily calculated .

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