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by shardling 4641 days ago
In general, magnetism requires the material to be ordered, and heating an object up involves adding lots of random motion to the system.

> The electrons might even get excited enough to jump to entirely different orbitals

That's what causes hot objects to glow, basically -- the electrons get pushed to higher orbitals, and then fall back down again, emitting light.