Why isn’t liquid iron still magnetic? Why can’t we have liquid magnets?

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Why isn’t liquid iron still magnetic? Why can’t we have liquid magnets?

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The high temperature prevents it from being magnetic. It loses its magnetism before it becomes liquid. Basically the heat is making the atoms move so fast they can’t properly line up to produce a magnetic field.

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