Answer 1:
I'm not really sure what this question is asking,
but it sounds like Dorene wants to make a
permanent magnet which is liquid. In general, a
liquid will not be magnetic because the
magnetic spins will not be aligned on a large
scale and the fields from the randomly oriented
spins will cancel out. This
page gives some further explanation. An
alternative material could be
ferrofluids. Ferrofluids are
essentially collections of nanoscale permanent
magnets suspended in some liquid, not
magnetic on their own, but become magnetized in
the presence of a magnetic field.
There is some discussion on
ScienceLine here.
If the goal is actually to have not just a liquid,
but a liquid which is purely magnetic north and
another liquid which is only magnetic south, then
things get even more complicated. We
haven't even found solid
magnetic monopoles yet, but scientists
are
looking (and I don't think there is a
known fundamental reason why one couldn't exist).
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