The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 488
a magnet to the other end of thestove-holder and the compass-needle will recede. The reason is,that at first the compass-needlemade the iron a magnet with itsnearest end a south pole, but after-ward the influence of the strongermagnet turned it into a magnet withpoles reversed. If, instead of… … Floating Magnet Figures. 10. Try the above experiment, us-ing a large mass of iron, a stove, forinstance, instead of a small bar.The result will be the same, butwill take place more slowly. Thereason is that magnetism takes timeto travel through iron, and thistime may be noticeable in the caseof a…
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