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I was gone when we discussed this and I have no idea what ferromagnetic means. A furry magnet?

I was gone when we discussed this and I have no idea what ferromagnetic means. A furry-example-1
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Haha... no,

ferromagnetism is a substance with a high/natural susceptibility to magnetization. So those are your earth metals exhibiting unique magnetic behavior like iron, cobalt, and nickel.

Paramagnetism is when certain materials are weakly attracted by an external magnetic field, producing their own induced magnetic fields, aluminum is an example

Diamagnetism is when to magnetic things approach each other and there are repelling due to their electrons orbiting in opposite directions.

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