Paheli and her friends were decorating the class bulletin board. She dropped the box of stainless steel pins by mistake. She tried to collect the pins using a magnet. She could not succeed. What could be the reason for this?

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Paheli and her friends were decorating the class bulletin board. She dropped the box of stainless steel pins by mistake. She tried to collect the pins using a magnet. She could not succeed. What could be the reason for this?

Philoid · Accepted Answer

Magnet attracts only those metals which have magnetic properties in them like iron, nickel, cobalt and so on. Here the pins are made up of stainless steel which is non-magnetic in nature. Therefore, the pins will not be attracted towards the magnet.