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In a magnetic system, consistent with Griffiths analyticity requirements one can parameterize the equation of state near criticality by writing H = r(beta delta)h(theta), T = rt(theta) and the magnetization M = r(beta)m(theta), where T is measured from the critical temperature. For the insulating ferromagnet CrBr(3), the experimental data of Ho and Litster [J.T. Ho, J.D. Litster, Phys. Rev. Lett. 22 (1969) 6031 is well fitted by m(theta) as a linear function of theta [P. Schofield, J.D. Litster, J.T Ho, Phys. Rev. Lett. 23 (1969) 1098]. Also Ho and Litster give beta = 0.368, gamma = 1.215 and delta = 4.3. Those critical experiments are very close to the recent 31) king results of Zhang [Z.D. Zhang, Philos. Mag. 87 (2007) 5309], namely beta = 3/8, gamma = 5/4 and delta = 13/3. We therefore predict that m(theta) will be proportional to theta as a fingerprint of the 3D Ising Hamiltonian. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.