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A piece of metal can be magnetized if the atoms of which it is composed are magnetic, and they have aligned their north-south poles to point in the same direction. Heat increases atomic vibration and will cause these atoms to lose their alignment and point in all different directions, so that their atomic magnetic fields will not combine to form one large magnetic field.

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