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A permanent magnet is an object made from a material that is magnetized and creates its own persistent magnetic field. An everyday

example is a refrigerator magnet used to hold notes on a refrigerator door.

Materials that can be magnetized,

which are also the ones that are

strongly attracted to a magnet, are

called ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic). These include iron, nickel, cobalt, some alloys of rare earth metals, and some naturally occurring minerals such as lodestone.

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