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Magnets are really interesting things that have been the subject of human curiosity for hundreds of years. At their center, magnets are composed of materials that can push or pull on other materials without touching them over a distance; they attract some types of metals and repel others, like iron, nickel, or cobalt. This unusual […]

As far as metals possessing magnetic traits are concerned, tin is a very unique element. Tin is not magnetically attracted like iron, cobalt, or nickel, which are ferromagnetic materials. This lack of magnetism in tin explains everything. That is to say that paramagnetism is what best describes tin since it gets slightly attracted to magnets