Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A fluorine-containing compound is included in a portion on the non-magnetic support on a magnetic layer side, and a ratio ?r of a water contact angle measured on a surface of the magnetic layer after sliding on a magnetic head to a water contact angle measured on the surface of the magnetic layer before sliding on the magnetic head is 0.70 or more.

Abstract: Provided are a magnetic tape, a magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic tape apparatus including the magnetic tape. The magnetic tape includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder. An amount of a fluid lubricant extracted from a surface of the magnetic layer after sliding on a magnetic head in an environment of a temperature of 60° C.±1° C. and a relative humidity of 10% is 50% or more of an amount of the fluid lubricant extracted from the surface of the magnetic layer before the sliding, on a mass basis.

Abstract: Ra measured on a surface of a magnetic layer is 2.5 nm or less, and ?(HD?HB) between a protrusion height HD with a height of a peripheral base region of 0 nm as a reference, which is measured by AFM, for a region specified as a dark region in a first binarization-processed image of a reflected electron image obtained by imaging the surface of the magnetic layer with SEM and a protrusion height HB with a height of a peripheral base region of 0 nm as a reference, which is measured by AFM, for a region specified as a bright region in a second binarization-processed image of the reflected electron image obtained by imaging the surface of the magnetic layer with SEM, the second binarization processing being performed on a higher gradation side than the first binarization processing, is 0.7 nm or more.

Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the magnetic layer includes an abrasive, the abrasive is a carbide, an average primary particle diameter of the abrasive is 10 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and in an electron microscope image of a surface of the magnetic layer, assuming that a total area occupied by the abrasive is 100%, a ratio of an area occupied by the abrasive present in an aggregated state having a maximum Feret diameter of 0.2 µm or more is 50% or more.

Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A fluorine-containing compound is included in a portion on the non-magnetic support on a magnetic layer side, and a ratio ?r of a water contact angle measured on a surface of the magnetic layer after sliding on a magnetic head to a water contact angle measured on the surface of the magnetic layer before sliding on the magnetic head is 0.70 or more.

Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. An anisotropic magnetic field Hk is 12 kOe or more, a center line average roughness Ra of the surface of the magnetic recording medium on the magnetic layer side is 1.2 nm or less, and a ratio ?r of a contact angle ?2 with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene, measured on a surface on the magnetic layer side after a 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane immersion, to a contact angle ?1 with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene, measured on the surface on the magnetic layer side before the 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane immersion is 0.95 or less.