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What are the 4 properties of magnets?


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Magnets:

  1. A magnet is a substance or item that generates a magnetic field.
  2. This magnetic field is invisible, but it is responsible for a magnet's most remarkable property: a force that attracts or repels other ferromagnetic elements such as iron, steel, nickel, cobalt, and so on.

Properties of magnets:

These are the magnet's main qualities:

  1. Magnets attract ferromagnetic materials.
  2. The magnet's similar poles repel each other, whereas the opposite poles attract one other.
  3. A hung magnet always comes to rest facing north-south.
  4. The magnet's poles are arranged in pairs. i.e. magnetic monopole doesn't exist.

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