eli5 Why do magnetics lose magnetism when they are heated up?
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At a molecular level, a magnetic object is made up electrons being held in a specific shape by the object’s internal bonds. One pole of the magnet would have almost all of the electrons while the other has almost none. This imbalance is what creates the magnetic field.
If you heat an object up, the bonds inside the object start to dissolve and things inside them can start to move around. Without the structure of the bonds to hold them in place, the electrons try to get as far away from each other as possible, resulting in them being evenly distributed inside the object. Without concentration of electrons to create it, the magnetic field goes away.
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