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Mr. Garcia uses magnets to hold a poster on a steel filing cabinet because a main component of steel is _____.

The answer should be one word. I was thinking either "magnetic" or "metal" but I'm not sure...

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Iron

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Steel is the purest form of iron with a little amount of carbon mixed in it. As we all know that iron is attracted towards magnet therefore we can say that steel can also be attracted towards magnet.

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The main component of steel is iron ... the mother of all magnetic material.
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