Stainless steel contains Iron (well over 50% typically) and Nickel (around 10%). So why is it not magnetic?

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This one has bugged me for awhile. Magnets attract iron and nickel, and most anything that contains a significant amount of these elements. Yet magnets and stainless ignore each other.

Why?

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Stainless steel contains Iron (well over 50% typically) and Nickel (around 10%). So why is it not magnetic?

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