An engineer observes that as a magnetic material approaches its Curie temperature, the magnetization decreases continuously to zero. Which mechanism explains this behavior?

💡 Explanation

As temperature nears the Curie point, increased thermal energy disrupts the cooperative alignment of atomic magnetic moments that gives rise to long-range ferromagnetic order, because the energy overcomes the exchange interaction. Therefore, the magnetization decreases to zero, rather than remaining stable or increasing due to other effects.

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