Do magnets have aligned magnetic domains?
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One theory of why a material, capable of being magnetised, becomes magnetic (i.e., attracts ferrous material), is that the individual, but randomly distributed 'domains' within are lined up (by some exterior force - e.g., magnetic field from a coil,  'stroking' with an already magnetised piece of iron/streel, etc.), so that the domains line up. The summation of their individual magnetic fields effectively produces one large magnetic field in  the material and makes what we call a magnet!   Some materials, after this process, retain their magnetism and are called permanent magnets, others, such as relay cores, once the external force is removed, exhibit very little residual magnetism.
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Magnets attract to ferrous metals such as iron, nickel, cobalt, certain steels and other alloys. Brass, aluminum, copper, and most stainless steels, however, are non ferrous
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Sorry, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't exist.\n\nThen again, I know nothing about this area of interest.\nI like enio_giacomini's answer. Go with that.\nThen again, he answered that "magnet" question with "In center," which makes no sense at all.  Whatever. Your call.
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When talking about a magnet large enough to be handled (and broken), it can be thought of as a collection of smaller magnets.  These smaller magnets are all aligned from north to south poles on each end.  If you got two 1" x 1/2" magnets, and put them end to end, N to S, they would make a magnet double the length of the original, and the ends would attract.  If you take the now 2" magnet apart, you have two magnets.  In practice, this is exactly what happened when you broke the magnet.  The pieces are still magnetic, with a north and south pole.  Therefore if you take the 2 pieces and put north to north or south to south, they will repel, and vice versa if north to south, they will attract.  No one yet has found just a south pole, or just a north pole, and that causes a stir in the scientific community.  You can keep crushing the magnet to bits and the tiny fragments will still have a north and south pole, and act like tiny little bar magnets.
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All normal matter is composed of particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons, and all of these have the fundamental property of quantum mechanical spin. Spin gives each one of these particles an associated magnetic field. Because of this, and the fact that the average microscopic piece of matter contains huge numbers of these particles, it would be expected that all matter would be magnetic. Even antimatter would have magnetic characteristics. However, everyday experience shows that this is not the case.\n\nWithin each atom and molecule, the spin of each of these particles is highly ordered as a result of the Pauli Exclusion Principle. However, there is no long range ordering of these spins between atoms and molecules. Without long range ordering, there is no net magnetic field because the magnetic moment of each one of the particles is cancelled by the magnetic moment of other particles.\n\nPermanent magnets are special in that long range ordering does exist. The highest degree of ordering exists within magnetic domains. These domains can be likened to microscopic neighbourhoods in which there is a strong reinforcing interaction between particles, and as a result, a great deal of order. The greater the degree of ordering within and between domains, the greater the resulting field will be.
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All normal matter is composed of particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons, and all of these have the fundamental property of quantum mechanical spin. Spin gives each one of these particles an associated magnetic field. Because of this, and the fact that the average microscopic piece of matter contains huge numbers of these particles, it would be expected that all matter would be magnetic. Even antimatter would have magnetic characteristics. However, everyday experience shows that this is not the case.\n\nWithin each atom and molecule, the spin of each of these particles is highly ordered as a result of the Pauli Exclusion Principle. However, there is no long range ordering of these spins between atoms and molecules. Without long range ordering, there is no net magnetic field because the magnetic moment of each one of the particles is cancelled by the magnetic moment of other particles.\n\nPermanent magnets are special in that long range ordering does exist. The highest degree of ordering exists within magnetic domains. These domains can be likened to microscopic neighbourhoods in which there is a strong reinforcing interaction between particles, and as a result, a great deal of order. The greater the degree of ordering within and between domains, the greater the resulting field will be.\n\nLong range ordering (and the resulting strong net magnetic field) is one of the hallmarks of a ferromagnetic material.
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Different metals have different magnetic field strengths.\n\nFor example, neodymium magnets are among the strongest.
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you could... whith a very very strong field you can magnetize almost everything... but you wont afford enough money and space to do this at home :-)\n\nTry for ferrofluids, these are liquids(like oil, maybe water?) containing magnetic nanoparticles... you could afford that.
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ferromagnet materials will lose their magnetism if heated above a point known as the Curie temperature. \nExposure to an opposing magnetic field will "knock it down", but not demagnetize it completely.
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Do you mean "magnetic"?????
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Magnetization of materials\n\nFerromagnetic materials can be magnetized in the following ways:\n\n* Placing the item in an external magnetic field will result in the item retaining some of the magnetism on removal. Vibration has been shown to increase the effect. Ferrous materials aligned with the earth's magnetic field and which are subject to vibration (e.g. frame of a conveyor) have been shown to acquire significant residual magnetism.\n    \n* Placing the item in a solenoid with a direct current passing through it.\n    \n* Stroking - An existing magnet is moved from one end of the item to the other repeatedly in the same direction.\n    \n* Placing a steel bar in a magnetic field, then heating it to a high temperature and then finally hammering it as it cools. This can be done by laying the magnet in a North-South direction in the Earth's magnetic field. In this case, the magnet is not very strong but the effect is permanent.\nMagnetization of materials\n\nFerromagnetic materials can be magnetized in the following ways:\n\n* Placing the item in an external magnetic field will result in the item retaining some of the magnetism on removal. Vibration has been shown to increase the effect. Ferrous materials aligned with the earth's magnetic field and which are subject to vibration (e.g. frame of a conveyor) have been shown to acquire significant residual magnetism.\n    \n* Placing the item in a solenoid with a direct current passing through it.\n    \n* Stroking - An existing magnet is moved from one end of the item to the other repeatedly in the same direction.\n    \n* Placing a steel bar in a magnetic field, then heating it to a high temperature and then finally hammering it as it cools. This can be done by laying the magnet in a North-South direction in the Earth's magnetic field. In this case, the magnet is not very strong but the effect is permanent.
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Pounding on your workbench can put very high shock loads throughout.  In extreme cases shock waves can cause pieces of solid steel to separate (called spalling).  Further, as other answers mentioned, magnets tend to be brittle.  This is not because they are made of cheap iron.  Modern rare earth magnets are made using a complex sintering process where particles are compressed at slightly elevated temperature to hold them together.  They are notoriously brittle.  Finally, internal forces caused by the fields inside the magnet actually tend to force the magnet apart, splitting it from pole to pole.  Put this all together and poof - one magnet becomes several.
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How to demagnetize materials\nPermanent magnets can be demagnetized in the following ways:\n\nHeat. Heating a magnet past its Curie point will destroy the long range ordering. \nContact. Stroking one magnet with another in random fashion will demagnetize the magnet being stroked, in some cases; some materials have a very high coercive field and cannot be demagnetized with other permanent magnets. \nHammering or jarring. Such activity will destroy the long range ordering within the magnet. \nBeing placed in a solenoid which has an alternating current being passed through it. The alternating current will disrupt the long range ordering, in much the same way that direct current can cause ordering. \nIn an electromagnet, ceasing the flow of current will eliminate the magnetic field. However, a slight field may remain in the core material as a result of hysteresis.\n\n[edit]\nTypes of permanent
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I've already answered this question and you might want to refer to that for more details. But here goes. \n\nA magnet is made of ferromagnetic materials, and will only attract ferromagnetic materials. These are iron, nickel and cobalt. Any alloy that contains one or more of those is ferromagnetic.\n\nThe metal forms tiny grains as it cools from a liquid to a solid, and within these tiny grains are even smaller regions called magnetic domains. Think of groups of atoms packed together. Unless a material is abolutely pure, there will be odd atoms of other elements and when the metal cools, they do not stack together absolutely correctly. If it is only a tiny amount of impurities, we do not notice the difference in terms of size, shape or weight.\n\nBut the domains are not lined up the same. Think of a bunch of guys just starting basic training. They are all milling around on the parade ground. But let's say that we heat the bar of metal until it is almost ready to melt and then subect it to a strong magnetic field (stick it inside the coil of a strong electromagnet, and let it cool that way.)\n\nNow they are all lined up the same way (just the way a bunch of paper clips will al line up when you pick them up with a magnet.) And when the metal cools and become solid once more, now they stay in that position. It is like a drill sergeant coming and yelling at the new recruits until they line up in formation. Now they are ready to take orders and get some useful work done.\n\nWhen the troops all line up and march the same way, you can see the result. They are more orderly, when they march along their feet all hit the ground at once, and they look unstoppable! \n\nIt is the same way with the magentic material. Each one of the individual atoms has its own magnetic field, but when they are all pointing in random directions, nothing useful can be done. Some are pointing one way, some the opposite way. They act against each other and their corporate effect cannot be felt.\n\nSo, now that the atoms within the domains are lined up together, and the metal has cooled and solidified into a solid bar again, the domains are lined up in formation. Now, they are all pointing in the same direction and we can feel the effects of the magnetic field even outside the magnet itself. The magnetic field reaches beyond the magnet and loops around in space until it reaches the other pole, forming a sort of circuit.\n\nOkay, now we have a magnet and we can understand why it attracts another magnet, because opposite poles attract. north attracts south and south attracts north. (No such thing as gay magnets! it's a law of nature!). \n\nBut why does it attract ordinary non-magnetized iron or steel?\n\nThat has to do with the fact that even though the metal is solid, and the atoms cannot flow away as in a liquid, the atoms are still free to rotate in place without moving from where they are.\n\nThink of the group of raw recruits before they go through their basic training. They are standing around. All of a sudden, they hear a loud noice. It is the drill sergeant yelling at them. All their heads turn in his direction! He has their attention. It is the same way with a magnet.\n\nWhen the magnetic field of a magnet acts on the atoms (iron, nickel or cobalt) of a piece of ferromagnetic alloy that has not yet been magentized, even though the atoms can't move from their spots, they rotate to face in the direction of the magnetic field. They temporarily act together, just as the domains inside the permanent magnet do. The fancy scientific name for this is 'magnetic induction'.\n\nNow, the temporary (induced) pole in the piece of metal is attracted to the permanent pole of the permanent magnet. They move together, because the tendency is for the magnetic field to travel as short a distance as possible, and a pole alwasy induces the opposite pole. The two together, so the magnetic field can travel across the shortest possible distance.\n\nWhen the
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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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A magnet consists of molecular magnets.\nIf these magnets are arranged uniformly then the magnet will be stronger.\nIn an ordinary piece of iron there are molecular magnets, but since they are irregularly arranged there is no net magnetic field created.
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as far as i know of, yes.\n\nthink, the man made magnets create their own magnetic field and have always been exposed to the earths magnetic field. Reguardless of the man made one's position, they still emit the same pull towards each other based on their own magnetic fields. Just like magnets work in outer space, they should work at the north and south poles. (also, the man made magnets pull isn't effected when you connect multiple ones together so off of this example, they should work at the north and south poles also.)