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Why iron has more magnetic and other metals not?

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Why Iron Is Magnetic (Sometimes)

Ferromagnetism is a quantum mechanical property of a material. ... Iron and other transition metals have partially-filled electrons shells, so some of these elements and their compounds are magnetic

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