How are atoms in a magnet different from atoms in non-magnets?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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)

Answer 5

In a magnet, the atoms are arranged in a way that results in a net magnetic field. This alignment creates a magnetic moment that makes the material magnetic. In non-magnets, the atoms are not aligned in a way that produces a net magnetic field, so they do not exhibit magnetic properties.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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