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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Question 7🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Scientists in the MIT Department of Physics are studying materials which undergo phase transitions not at a fixed temperature but rather at a temperature which depends on the past conditions of the material, for instance whether the temperature is increasing or decreasing. What is the general term for such phenomena, which is also used to describe ferromagnetic materials retaining magnetization as an external magnetic field is turned off?

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