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<p>[QUOTE="doug444, post: 1923167, member: 38849"]University of Illinois, Physics Department:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Pure gold is not magnetic. That is, it doesn’t form a magnet on its own. If you put it in a magnetic field it will magnetize a tiny bit, but only so long as it’s in the field. and the direction of the magnetization makes it weakly <i>repel </i>the magnet.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are alloys of gold, for example gold with more than about 20% of the atoms replaced by iron, which do magnetize on their own, at least when they are very cold, much colder than room temperature..."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="doug444, post: 1923167, member: 38849"]University of Illinois, Physics Department: "Pure gold is not magnetic. That is, it doesn’t form a magnet on its own. If you put it in a magnetic field it will magnetize a tiny bit, but only so long as it’s in the field. and the direction of the magnetization makes it weakly [I]repel [/I]the magnet. There are alloys of gold, for example gold with more than about 20% of the atoms replaced by iron, which do magnetize on their own, at least when they are very cold, much colder than room temperature..."[/QUOTE]
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