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You should use a wire with the best electric conductivity (copper or silver) and wrap it around a (soft) iron core. The wire creates the magnetic field, the iron core concentrates it and turns into a magnet when a voltage is applied to the wire.

Iron has rather poor conductivity and malleability so is not suited as the coil of an electromagnet.

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