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Only if that piece of steel is the north pole of a compass.

In short the steel has to be magnetized, and it has to be able to move. A bar magnet resting on the ground would not move because there is too much friction and the force of the magnetic pole is relatively weak.

Though apparently if you suspend a bar magnet by a piece of string, it will align itself to the poles.

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