Most metals are not attracted by magnets. The only common ones strongly attracted to a magnet are cobalt, nickel and iron (steel is mostly iron). Examples of non-magnetic metals are iron and copper.
Metals that are not attracted by by magnets are Non Ferrous metals.
Metals that can be magnets and are picked up by magnets are ferrous metals, IE they contain iron (Fe)
steel, aluminum, and something else!
Answer:
Metals with iron in them are magnetic. Most others are not, for example, copper, brass, tin, aluminum, calcium, and so forth
rare earth materials that can have greater magnetic response, include yttrium, samarium, gadolinium and cobalt.
Even iron does do not guarantee magnetic properties. Stainless steel, for instance is 70-90% iron, but also contains 10-20% chromium and sometimes 10% of a combination of nickel, manganese, carbon or molybdenum. Once the chromium concentration gets above 16% stainless steel is nonmagnetic and that is why your magnets don't stick to some refrigerators.
liquids, solids, gasses, metals, plastic, dirt. Sometimes these materials are attracted by magnets, sometimes repelled. Sometimes these material can maintain their own magnetism (i.e.
be permanent magnets) and sometimes not.
In everyday language, if one says an object is magnetic, then one usually means it is attracted to a permanent magnet with enough force that it can be made to stick to the magnet. The object may be a permanent magnet itself or not in this common usage.
Materials that do not have atoms/molecules with unpaired electrons are pretty much guaranteed to have a small response to a magnetic field. (Everything has some magnetic response, just not necessarily large enough to notice.) Even so, materials composed of atoms with an unpaired electron will only sometimes exhibit a large magnetic response. It ultimately depends on the details of the electronic structure of the bulk material and can not be predicted with any accuracy based on looking at the periodic table.
Generally, materials with a strong magnetic response contain atoms with unpaired electrons. Unpaired electrons is a favorable characteristic, but not a guarantee of magnetic properties. Having unpaired electrons is a characteristic of every odd numbered element of the periodic table. Chemists usually designate the left two-thirds
of the periodic table as "metals," the implication being that if the atoms are brought together in large numbers they form materials that conduct electricity.
Materials with a large magnetic response are typically made from iron, nickel, cobalt and manganese and their alloys. So-called
rare earth materials that can have greater magnetic response, include yttrium, samarium, gadolinium and cobalt.
As stated in the beginning, creating materials with desired magnetic properties has largely been a matter of trial and error. Today, there are highly sophisticated computer models based on the theory quantum mechanics for electrons in solids which can do a reasonably good job of predicting the magnetic and other properties of solids. The theoretical and computational physics behind this has been going on for more than half a century.
Only four elements: nickel, cobalt, iron and manganese are paramagnetic. Alloys containing these elements may be magnetic - depending on the amounts present. All other metals and their alloys are not.
Non-ferrous (=metals not containing iron) are usually not magnetic.
Many metals are not attracted or repulsed by magnetic fields.
Examples include copper, aluminium and sodium
Steel, copper and brass I think
Tin. stainless steel
Tin
Stainless steel
Iron is a magnetic material, it conducts metal.
i think because some metal only has atiny bit of iron
No magnet can attract soil unless the soil has a high percentage of magnetic material in it such as iron or nickel.
A magnet ........
It is a magnet or a electro-magnet. If you are trying to use it as a metal detector then you will need a really strong magnet!
Metal?
Metal?
A metal pan will not attract iron but a magnet does.
No, a metal must have iron in it to attract a magnet.
The exact same way that a normal magnet attracts metal.
Yes.
copper
magnets only attract iron and steel
There are magnets in magnets that magnetically attract metal...
anything that contains metal, or the opposite polar attraction for the magnet (i.e. the + will attract to the - and vice versa)
yes
If the magnet is made of metal then it can act as a good conductor to the Earth like any other metal. The fact that it is magnetised does not attract the lightning.