Attractive property

Repulsive property

Directive property

Temporary Magnets

Permanent Magnets

Magnet attracts ferromagnetic materials like iron, cobalt, and nickel

Like magnetic poles repel each other and unlike magnetic poles attract each other

A freely suspended magnet always points in a north-south direction.

magnets which are produced with the help of an external magnetic field

artificial magnets that retain their magnetic property even in the absence of an external magnetic field.