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Also to know is, does magnetism affect gravity?

By the way, only some ferrous materials are magnets, and only a few magnetic materials are ferrous. Both magnetism and gravity can affect objects at a distance. Both get weaker as the objects get farther apart. This is why you are affected by the pull of gravity from the earth, but not from distance planets.

Additionally, how do magnets overcome gravity? Most magnets already have stronger attraction force to close iron objects than gravity. This is shown by their ability to hold these objects in the face of gravity. If magnets' magnetic forces were merely as strong as gravity's power of attraction, these would be easily dislodged, and fall to the ground.

Keeping this in view, what is stronger gravity or magnetism?

To be exact, gravity is 137-times stronger than magnetism *at the planetary level*. There is, of course, an exception to this rule: Electromagnetism is stronger at the atomic and sub-atomic levels, so things are not as obvious as they might initially seem.

What is the difference between magnetic and gravitational force?

1 Answer. Gravity is relatively weaker, is a result of mass and acts on all things that have mass. Magnetic force is relatively stronger, is a result of interaction of photons(charged particles) and acts on things that contain iron(ferrous) or have a charge on them.