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I'm assuming the metal to be Steel, not a non-magnetic material. I'm not quite sure which part of my logic is faulty. If the electrons aren't realigned when in a magnetic field, why exactly then is steel attract to a magnet? If they are realigned, why doesn't it provide a small field of itself?

So I've just been thinking about how one could possible use Magnets/Electromagnets to repel from a metal. I came up with the following thought: Metal is attracted to a magnet because the magnet aligns the electrons in the metal to the opposite of the magnet (ie. a N pole put to a metal...