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Yes, it is. In fact, it's possible to attract anything to a magnet, provided the applied magnetic field is strong enough. This is due to the phenomenon known as diamagnetism. Diamagnetism is an effect caused at the atomic level, in where, given a strong enough applied field, all of the electrons inside all of the atoms within the material will slightly shift their orbits around the atomic nucleus to compensate for the external magnetic field. Now, were this to happen to just a few of the electrons in the material, the effect wouldn't be noticed. But, since it happens to allof the electrons in the material, an electric potential difference is created within the material, between the electrons and the nucleus, that can be observed at a macroscopic level.

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