The other day I had a metal spelk in my finger, and couldn’t grab it with my tweezers so had to attach a magnet to it them to pull the spelk out.
The atoms in magnets are angled in the same direction which is what gives it the magnet the magnetic effect, but how does this make other metals magnetic without changing the atomic structure of the metals and why does it only work on some metals and not all?
In: Physics
Some metals have the ability to re-orient at the level of the atom (or magnetic domain) without screwing up or being restricted by the lattice/crystal structure of the material. The physics just says that getting “magnetized” is possible. The atoms can stay bonded to each other even when the magnetic field forces the atoms into a higher energy state.
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