2006-06-30 12:39:37 · 12 answers · asked by Bob K 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Paramagnetic materials like Aluminum have magnetic properties, but cannot sustain a permanent dipole moment alignment. Hence it qualifies as a candidate for your question.
Also ferromagnetic materials (common ones are Cobalt, Iron, and Nickel) above their associated curie temperatures behave the same way. No permanent magnetization.
2006-06-30 13:26:02 · answer #1 · answered by none2perdy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tried really hard to come up with a great answer, and for the first time used WIKIPEDIA...as I started reading the material, my eyes began to cross and the right side of my brain took over just after I found this....
In the modern sense, a magnet is an object that has a magnetic field. It can be in the form of a permanent magnet or an electromagnet. Permanent magnets do not rely upon outside influences to generate their field. Electromagnets rely upon electric current to generate a magnetic field - when the current increases, so does the field. Magnets are attracted to, or repelled by, other materials. A material that is strongly attracted to a magnet is said to have a high permeability. Iron and steel are two examples of materials with very high permeability, and they are strongly attracted to magnets. Liquid oxygen is an example of something with a low permeability, and it is only weakly attracted to a magnetic field. Water has such a low permeability that it is actually slightly repelled by magnetic fields. Everything has a measurable permeability: people, gases, and even the vacuum of outer space.
2006-06-30 19:51:16 · answer #2 · answered by Miss Anne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a metal is attracted to a magnet, then the metal itself MUST be magnetic since there is no attraction between a magnet or a non-magnet. In other words, to be attracted to a magnet, you must become a magnet, and therefore that metal does not exist.
2006-06-30 21:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by Chx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A steel paperclip is not a magnet, yet a paperclip can be picked-up by a magnet.
Hematite normally can't be picked up by a magnet,
but if you heat Hematite, after cooling it can be picked up by a magnet. Nonetheless, this heated hematite is not a magnet in the 'domestic' sense of the word, since it can't pick-up even a very small paperclip.
2006-06-30 19:59:09 · answer #4 · answered by Amber S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ferrocious metals can be magnetized and and are attracted by magnets too. Atoms and molecules have tiny charges too and are sort of magnetic too. Electricity and magnetism are interchangeable.
2006-06-30 20:41:54 · answer #5 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All matter is slightly magnetic, everything is slightly attracted to a magnet.
2006-06-30 19:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cryptonight
2006-06-30 20:40:47 · answer #7 · answered by The Mac 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spent uranium
2006-06-30 20:19:41 · answer #8 · answered by Zen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a paper clip, I’m not positive but that’s what I would try.
2006-06-30 19:59:32 · answer #9 · answered by patchesvz121 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talc?
2006-06-30 19:44:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋