what kind of things do magnets attract?
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Some types of metal and other magnets.
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Magnets have no effect on your body whatsoever.  But feel free to fool yourself into thinking they'll do something anyway.  Science doesn't have the answers, turn to pseudoscience.
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Metals are attracted to magnets due to unbonded electron pairs that can be easily influenced by a magnetic field.\nFerrous metals (refering to Iron) can be easily influenced by a magnetic field, making them very magnetic.
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Oz gave a pretty good answer, but a magnetic field doesn't create a gravitational attraction.  Gravity and electromagnetism are two different forces (at least under normal conditions--some scientists think they may be the same under extreme heat and pressure).
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Magnets, dropping it, heat, water/humidity, age.
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There is a confusion about magnetic attration and gravity attraction. First of all,nothing has been proven to show that there is something in the earth that pulls you down.It makes more senseto believe that gravity is an external phenomena rather than an internal one.\n\nThere is no magnetic response unless two poles exist in a material. In this case we have an internal phenomena which has to do the atomic structure of the material which forms\nan external circuit of twisted space. It requires two opposite ends to observe a magnetic response. The poles of a material which is magnetized can exhibit both attraction and repulsion.\nMost material display some magnetism.\nFerrous material are able to store magnetic power more so than other material because of the arrangement of their electronic structures.\n\nIt is believed by scientists that  the magnetism of the earth is caused by a molted iron core;however ,it has\nbeen shown that at high temperature a magnetic field cannot be established.\n\nThe best explanation presented was that the earth magnetic field is caused by the motion of the ocean around the earth.
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Metals become magnetized more easily than other materials because of the way in which their molecules bind to each other.  The positive nucleii align while the surrounding electrons (negatively charged) float around in a "sea of electrons."  Because magnetism is simply the attraction of positive charge to negative, anything can become magnetic, though it may take more work to break the electrons free of their orbits around the central positively charged nucleus.  The strength of magnetism is directly related to the amount of energy it takes to bring the electrons away from their positions around the nucleus.  In metals' case, it takes little.  In an MRI, it is actually water that is magnetized.
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Think of a magnet as a bunch of tiny magnets all aligned in the same direction. That's what gives it it's north-south poles. A piece of iron has those same tiny magnets inside, but they are not lined up. They are jumbled in all different directions and therefore the iron does not act like a magnet. But put it next to a magnet, at either pole, and all the pieces will line up with the magnet's tiny parts. Basically becoming part of the magnet. If the piece of iron stays next to the magnet long enough, the iron will stay magnetized even when moved away. But it will slowly get weaker as all its little magnet "parts" lose their alignment.
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Try this. Iron when combined with other metal elements becomes non-magnetic, yet with varying of the same elements is quite attracted to the magnet.Name the divisions of the metals and explain why.
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A female's best attraction is based on her body's shape. On their body breast is the only thing exposed for a special attraction like magnetic. If it is with a good shape, it is very nice to see also.That is a specil gift given by God to them. If Iam right  mail me.... jerrydubai@rediffmail.com
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A magnet whose magnetic properties is dependent on current flow.
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Electro-magnets use electricity to temporarily align all of the atoms in a ferrous material to a N-S position. When the electricity is turned off, the atoms return to their original misaligned state, losing much of its magnetivity. It never completely loses all of it, as some atoms will remain in the alligned state, creating a "Gauss" feild around it.
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No one has answered for 5 hours probably because no one has heard of an incandescent magnet.\n\nA permanent magnet is usually formed from cooling a ferromagnetic material  in the presence of a strong magnetic field.  The field causes the individual magnetic domains to align parallel to the field.  When the material cools and solidifies, these small particles are no longer free to move.\n\nIf you heat such a magnet enough for it to incandesce, the tiny particles are again free to move, and will randomize their orientation to minimize the total energy of the system.
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Use a magnet. Iron is attracted to it, lead is not.
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piece of metal that is exposed to an electromagnetic field\n\n\nBasically the individual atoms of the material are polarized to begin with, but they're scrambled among each other. Putting them in a magnetic field just makes many of them align and have a higher degree of directional attraction.
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While both have attraction on one side and repulsion on the other side, a magnet can not shout. \nNext: A magnet retains its gloss and colour if stored properly even after ten years.
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Electromagnets are made out of metal that can easily be magnetized by applying DC voltage. Electromagnets do not occur naturally in nature but are manmade. Their magnetism can be turned on and off.\n\nPermanent magnets occur naturally in nature.