Why does a piece of iron behave like a temporary magnet when placed

in a magnetic field?

SOLUTION:
Iron consists of many small magnetic domains which all line up and temporarily behave like an ordinary magnet when iron is placed in an external magnetic field.

IS this right?

1 answer

yes.

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