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Helmholtz coil
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magnetism
- In magnetism: Magnetization effects in matter
…a configuration is called a Helmholtz coil. By carefully orienting and adjusting the current in a large Helmholtz coil, it is often possible to cancel an external magnetic field (such as Earth’s magnetic field) in a region of space where experiments require the absence of all external magnetic fields.
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