archaeomagnetism
Meaning of archaeomagnetism
noun
magnetism possessed by components of clay and rocks which have in the past been heated above a certain temperature. The orientation and intensity of this remanent magnetism was fixed by the earth's magnetic field when the material cooled, and can be used to study the earth's magnetism and as a method of geological and archaeological dating.
Information about archaeomagnetism
- It is a name.
- The plural form of archaeomagnetism is: archaeomagnetisms.
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Hyphenation of archaeomagnetism
ar-chaeo-mag-netism
- It consists of 4 syllables and 16 chars.
- archaeomagnetism is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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