If iron cobalt and nickel are magnetic (which I think is the right term, but it feels wrong since magnets stick but it doesn’t magnet to other steel) then why does using nickel to make stainless steel render steel non-magnetic?
Or is my metallurgical understanding just completely off?
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>If iron cobalt and nickel are magnetic
The specific term you’re looking for is “ferrous”, meaning “like ferrum” (ferrum is the classical name for iron, hence Fe).
Ferrous materials are affected by magnetic fields, but do not emit their own.
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