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Soft iron is a good example of a material that can be strongly magnetized by an external magnetic field, but which loses most (or nearly all) of its magnetism as soon as the external field is removed. Generally, materials classed as Paramagnetic exhibit this behaviour. Many Ferromagnetic materials are designed to behave this way, such as the Ferrite cores of tuning coils in radio receivers.

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