Can/How do you make iron or other element magnetic without a magnet?

Subject: Can/How do you make iron or other element magnetic without a magnet?

Date: Thu Apr 12 13:48:49 2001
Posted by Richard
Grade level: undergrad School: No school entered.
City: Kernersville State/Province: NC Country: USA
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 987097729.Es

Message:


Message ID: 845825196.Es 
In regarding to above message, he writes that Iron CAN BE a magnet. Is iron in 
its raw form magnetic, or does it have to magnetized? How do you magnetize 
something? If you had a piece if iron how would you make it magnetic without a 
magnet to rub up against it? Motion of somekind maybe? Two pieces of iron 
rubbing against each other, would that make them magnetic? How is magnetism 
acheived, [in laymans terms if possible]?

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