Creating a Magnet at Room Temperature

  • Context: Graduate 
  • Thread starter Thread starter paragtam
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Magnet Temperature
Join the discussion
Registration is free. Ask a follow-up in this thread, or start your own.
2 replies · 2K views
paragtam
Messages
4
Reaction score
0
How can every substance be converted into a magnet (at room temperature)?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
paragtam said:
How can every substance be converted into a magnet (at room temperature)?

No, not every substance can be converted into a magnet. Why do you say that ? May I know please ?

Are you asking a method to convert every substance to magnet ,or are you asking how it can be converted to magnet ?
 
Last edited:
paragtam said:
How can every substance be converted into a magnet (at room temperature)?

Not sure the context of your question, but fundamentally every electron, proton and neutron is a tiny magnet. Most substances do not show coordinated magnetic behavior of the electrons (the strongest magnets) at room temperature.

... but I suppose, if you got down to one molecule of a substance and made sure it had an odd number of electrons (the electron magnets tend to pair and cancel themselves out), you could in theory convert the substance into a magnet.