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Non-ferrous metals do not contain iron(Fe) and are therefore not ferromagnetic. Most common of these are copper, silver, aluminium, lead, magnesium, platinum and tungsten. Magnetic fields can produce reactions in all materials, however, and these fall into three general categories: # Ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, which have a large positive magnetic susceptibility, and are capable of being magnetised by weak magnetic fields. # Paramagnetic materials, such as aluminum, magnesium, and platinum, which have a positive magnetic susceptibility due to molecules or atoms in which there are unpaired electrons, resulting in a magnetic moment contributed to by the spin or orbital motion of the electron. # Diamagnetic materials, such as copper, lead, and silver, which have a negative magnetic susceptibility caused by the motion of electrons in atoms around the nuclei, as they change their orbits and velocities to produce a magnetic field that opposes an applied field.

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