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Originally Posted by fraze

i never said that it was. i trying to provide an analogy. they're very similar effects and they're both caused by charge differences.

Magnets manipulate the natural electrical fields in certain kinds metals to change the orientation of their atoms according to the polarity of the magnet. All of the atoms lined up inside the metal become strongly polarized (builds up negative charge one side and positive on the other), so you see a magnified example of the same type of bonding that holds sodium to chlorine in a salt molecule (ionic bonding - aka bonding through charge differences)

You're over-simplifying magnetism & I doubt uh-oh understands ionic bonding at that level to begin with haha


to say that 'certain metal atoms interact with magnetic fields to align themselves according to their charge distribution' is not only wrong but it doesn't explain the 'why' of anything

Anyways, highly electronegative atoms and polar molecules interact with magnetic fields, but this is only relevant on a molecular scale. Basic charge interactions don't explain the magnetism we see in everyday life.

Ferromagnetism is entirely based on quantum mechanics, i.e. the filling of electron orbitals with the highest number of unpaired electrons possible

Magnetism is not a magnified example of ionic bonding, like at all