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It started as being known as 'the Magnesian Stone' from Magnesia, a region in Thessaly where the ore was obtained The word spread from Latin to most European countries as magnet, magneet or magnete. The origins are sometime before the 1400's when both the Latin and Greek word was 'magneta'

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