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Magnets are different even though they have south and a north pole red is south, blue is north
Magnets are available in different shapes and sizes.it is available in: horseshoe shape, ring shape,bar shape and cylindrical shape

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The primary difference is that in materials that can be used as magnets, the atoms can form what are called magnetic domains. Individual atoms and small groups of them form these domains, and the domains can be caused to "face the same way" when exposed to a magnetic field. When the field that aligned them is removed, some of the domains don't return to their previous orientation. They stay aligned leaving a residual magnetic field. The materials that cannot be used magnets don't have magnetic domains. If you heat magnetic material and expose it to a strong magnetic field while it's hot (like at or above its Curie temperature), and then you apply a strong magnetic field and maintain the field while cooling it down, the field "impressed" on the material will largely stay there and you've made a permanent magnet.

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If we look on the Periodic Table, we see that iron, nickel and cobalt are next door to each other, meaning that they have similar electron numbers. When we look at the large scale, their atoms are collected together in crystals, forming groups of atoms called domains, where the electron poles caused by their proximity all line up in one direction. These materials are (ferro)magnetic, whereas other materials don't have this particular electron configuration so don't form domains. There might be a million atoms forming a domain. In unmagnetised samples, the domains point in random directions. If we stroke a sample of the material with a magnet, all the domains line up and point the same way.

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the material from which they were made (i.e. iron, magnetite, steel) , their amount of magnetism/strength (magnetite is much stronger than a refrigerator magnet), and their duration of magnetism (a load stone will almost never lose it's magnetism -loadstone is natural- where as a refrigerator magnet will lose it's magnetism in roughly three years)

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Atoms in magnets have unpaired electrons. they have net magnetic moment.

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The Coherence of the electron spins makes the difference between magnetic and non-magnetic materials. Coherence creates magnetism.

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What particle is responsible for a material magnetic properties?

Each atom acts like a tiny magnet. When the atoms are aligned, the magnets produce magnetism. When an iron or nickel material comes near the magnet, its atoms align with the different pole facing the magnet. For example, if the magnet's atoms have the North side facing away, then the iron object will have the South side facing the magnet. So then they attract.


Atoms in a magnet are?

"aligned"


What are the domains in a magnetized substance?

Everything is made of atoms, so yes, there are atoms in a magnet.


What do atoms have that makes an object magnetic?

a magnet field..!


Groups of atoms with aligned magnetic poles are called magnetic what?

Within a magnet, the separate poles are composed of domains, regions where the individual atoms are aligned with parallel magnetic moments.


Why does stroking a material with a magnet make it magnetised?

because the magnet causes particles called electrons in the atoms of the nail to align along the magnet's lines of force. The atoms with aligned electrons then act like tiny bar magnets themselves.


What is a group of aligned atoms that behaves like a magnet?

domain


How does the shape of magnets affect its magnetism?

hello,a magnet has several poles for every atom of a magnet has n,s poles.a bar magnet has two poles ,a ring magnet has no poles.so if a shape is different the atoms are arranged differenrtly and thus it affects its magnetism


Why does rubbing a pin with a magnet make it magnetised?

by this procces you r-arrenge the atoms of the pin by a special shape that makes it a magnet


Why do opposite magnetic poles attract?

A magnetic field is created when the atoms of a magnet line to the north or south pole of the magnet. When two opposite poles face each other, the fields, and the atoms inside the magnet, line up, and this causes the attraction between the poles.


How many atoms are in a magnet?

Even a single atom (if it is the right kind of atom) can generate a magnetic field, so there can be any number of atoms in a magnet, from one onwards to very large numbers, such as 1025.


Why do magnets only pick up some metals?

It all depends on the material's small magnetic fields called domains. If a group of domains point one way and another group points the a different way, then the material is magnetic. If every single domain is pointing the same way then it is a magnet. If the domains are random then it is a nonmagnetic material. Pure Iron is a material that will easily be lifted up by a magnet. This because of its structure, the bonds between the atoms. The magnet will attract all, due to a "weak" bonding. The atoms in the Iron will simply change charge so that they are attracted to a magnet regardless of North or South on the magnet.. When one mixes in other metals with Iron, say Chrome, the Chrome will cause the Iron atoms to be bonded very tightly to it. This mean that the Iron atoms can not any longer shift charges or turn in any way, and hence due to the "random" structure there will be (or at least can be) equally as many atoms that attracts to the magnet and push the magnet away. Then the material is non-magnetic.