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I HAVE read with interest Prof. Barrett's paper in NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 585. Between his results as to the effect of magnetisation on the dimensions of bars of iron, of steel, and of nickel, and those of Sir William Thomson's experiments (“Electrodynamic Qualities of Metals,” Part VII., Phil. Trans. R. S., Part I., 1879) on the effects of stress in the magnetisation of bars of the same metals, there exists a remarkable analogy, which, however, seems to break down in the case of cobalt. According to these experiments (which, I may mention, were carried out under Sir William Thomson's direction by my brother, Mr. Thomas Gray, and myself), the effect of the application of longitudinal pull to a bar of iron, while under the influence of inductive force tending to produce longitudinal magnetisation, is, for forces lower than a certain critical value, called from the Italian experimenter who frst observed it, the Villari Critical Value, to increase, and of the removal of pull, to diminish, the inductive magnetisation. When the magnetising force exceeded the critical value, these effects changed sign, and tended to a constant value as the magnetising force was increased.
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GRAY, A. On the Alterations in the Dimensions of the Magnetic Metals by the Act of Magnetisation. Nature 26, 625–626 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026625b0
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