分ぶん極きょく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

electric polarization

Technical term in physics and chemistry for the separation of electric charges within a material, often used with する to describe the process.

• 誘ゆう電でん体たいに電でん場ばをかけると分ぶん極きょくが生しょうじる。

  When an electric field is applied to a dielectric, polarization occurs.

• この物ぶっ質しつは強つよい電でん場ばで分ぶん極きょくする。

  This material polarizes under a strong electric field.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

magnetic polarization; magnetization

Technical term in physics for the alignment of magnetic moments in a material; synonymous with 磁化 (じか) in many contexts, though 分極 may emphasize the separation of poles.

See also: 磁気分極 · 磁化

• 磁じ気き分ぶん極きょくは強きょう磁じ性せい体たいで顕けん著ちょに見みられる。

  Magnetic polarization is prominently observed in ferromagnetic materials.

• 外がい部ぶ磁じ場ばによって材ざい料りょうが分ぶん極きょくする。

  The material becomes magnetized by an external magnetic field.