Bark|hau|sen effect

Bark|hau|sen effect «BAHRK _HOW zuhn»,

a series of small, abrupt jumps in the magnetization of iron or other ferromagnetic substances occurring as the magnetizing force is smoothly increased or decreased, considered to be due to atomic reorientation.

╂[< Heinrich Barkhausen, 1881-1956, a German physicist, who described it]