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  1. The temperature above which a magnetic
  2. material cannot be strongly magnetized. Above
  3. the Curie temperature, the energy of the
  4. atoms is too great for them to join together
  5. to form the small areas of magnetized
  6. material, or domains, which combine to
  7. produce the strength of the overall
  8. magnetization.
  9.