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.
The more accurate term is magnetization. How long a magnet takes to lose its magnetization is a function of what the magnetic materials is made up of, and how high a temperature you heat it too.At high temperatures, any magnet will lose its magnetization rather quickly (in a matter of minutes, if the temperature is high).agnets stay magnetized until something destabilizes them. The constant jostling of molecules (i.e. heat) slowly disorganizes the magnetic domains in a magnet, and this happens faster the hotter the magnet. Ultimately, a magnet will align itself to any pre-existing magnetic field, such as that of the Earth.