Posted by sophie on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 12:06pm.
Paramagnetism generally is caused by the spin of unpaired electrons; however, not all elements with unpaired electrons are paramagnetic. For example, H is diamagnetic but Li is paramagnetic. You can read more about this phenomenon here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramagnetism
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