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T/F While paper clips are clinging to a bar magnet, they are temporary magnets.

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T or F While paper clips are clinging to a bar magnet, they are temporary magnets.

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The answer is True

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Temporary magnets can be created when they come into contact with permanent magnets, but they do not retain their magnetism. For example, if you rub a piece of iron along an existing magnet, within the iron's atoms the electrons align in a north-south direction and the iron becomes a temporary magnet. It will behave as a magnet and attract other ferromagnetic metals. If one paper clip is hung from a magnet, a second paper clip can be hung from the first, and a third from the second. However, when the magnet is removed, the paper clips will no longer act as magnets.

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