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Permeability vs Coercivity - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between permeability and coercivity

is that permeability is the property of being permeable while coercivity is the quality of being coercive.

permeability

English

(wikipedia permeability)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • the property of being permeable
  • the rate of flow of a fluid through a porous material
  • (geology) a measure of the ability of a rock to transmit fluids (such as oil or water)
  • (physics) a quantitative measure of the degree of magnetization of a material in the presence of an applied magnetic field (measured in newtons per ampere squared in SI units).

    • Related terms

    * impermeable * nonpermeable * permeameter

    See also

    * conductivity

    coercivity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being coercive
  • (physics, materials science) The intensity of the magnetic field which must be applied in order to reduce the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material to zero after the magnetization of the sample has been driven to saturation

    • Synonyms

    *(quality of being coercive) coerciveness

    See also

    *permeability *hard *soft *permanent magnet *(wikipedia "coercivity")