What is Alnico 8 and How is it Different from Alnico 5 Magnets?
Alnico is a common and very commercially mature magnet alloy comprised of Aluminum, Nickel, Cobalt, Titanium and Iron. (There are also small amounts of various other elements including, but not limited to; copper, silicon, columbium, and zirconium.)
Alnico has a very high Residual Induction (Br). This characteristic of a magnet offers a sense of how large/strong of a magnetic field a particular magnet alloy can generate. (Typically the higher the Residual Induction the larger, more dense the magnetic field can be generated by a magnet.)