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A microscopic pattern that forms on the surface of a ferromagnetic material that has been coated with a colloidal suspension of small iron particles. The patterns outline the boundaries of the magnetic domains (see magnetism). They were first observed by F. Bitter in 1931.
From: Bitter pattern in A Dictionary of Physics »
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