Magnets cannot attract gold.
Magnets are composed of atoms such as iron, cobalt, nickel, etc., whose atoms have a special internal structure and have a magnetic moment in themselves. Magnets are capable of generating a magnetic field with the property of attracting ferromagnetic substances such as iron, nickel, cobalt and other metals.
Gold is the monomeric form of the chemical element gold (chemical symbol Au), a soft, gold-colored, corrosion-resistant precious metal. Gold is one of the rarer, more precious and extremely valued metals. Internationally, gold is generally measured in ounces, and in ancient China it was measured in "two" as the unit of gold, making it a very important metal.
Expanded Information:
Magnets were not invented by man, they are naturally occurring magnetite. The ancient Greeks and Chinese discovered a naturally magnetized stone in nature and called it "magnetite". The stone could magically pick up small pieces of iron and always point in the same direction when swung at random.
Early mariners used the magnet as their first compass to find their way at sea. It was the Chinese who first discovered and used magnets to make the "compass," one of China's four great inventions.
After thousands of years of development, magnets have become a powerful material in our lives. By synthesizing alloys of different materials, it is possible to achieve the same effect as a magnet, but also to increase the magnetic force. Man-made magnets appeared in the 18th century, but the process of making stronger magnetic materials was slow until the 1920s, when aluminum-nickel-cobalt (Alnico) was made.
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