This thread originates from within 'usenet', and as such the content and users are not guaranteed to have been moderated by our community. Don Phillipson:[nq:1]I'm watching the Simpsons. Bart says Eat my shorts a lot and I know it's some kind of insult. But I'm just wondering what SHORT means in this sentence.
Materials that can be magnetized, which are also the ones that are strongly attracted to a magnet, are called ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic). These include iron, nickel, cobalt, some alloys of rare earth metals, and some naturally occurring minerals such as lodestone.
Non magnetic iron left undisturbed will acquire a field from the magnetic field of the earth, so some change in the orientation of the field could happen to these little magnets, depending on how they lay with respect to the weak field of the earth.share | cite | improve this answer. answered Sep 15 '11 at 4:27.f a permanent magnet could decay at the rate given in Rook's answer above there would be none found in geological strata. A permanent magnet has a permanent orientation of the magnetic moments in a specific vectorially additive direction depending on small crystal domains.