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ture.

At very low temperatures, the solid exhibits no response to the external


field, because the antiparallel ordering of atomic magnets is rigidly
maintained. At higher temperatures, some atoms break free of the orderly
arrangement and align with the external field. This alignment and the weak
magnetism it produces in the solid reach their peak at the Néel temperature.
Above this temperature, thermal agitation progressively prevents alignment of
the atoms with the magnetic field, so that the weak magnetism produced in
the solid by the alignment of its atoms continuously decreases as temperature
is increased.

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