What makes some metals magnetic, and why are there only a few metal elements attracted to magnets?

1 Answer
Oct 17, 2017

See below

Explanation:

Honestly, there's too much to explain here, so I have provided a link to the classes of Magnetic materials which explain magnetism.
http://www.irm.umn.edu/hg2m/hg2m_b/hg2m_b.html

It has to do with electrons and positions, so those with more electrons will be more magnetic, due to the fact they have more charge.