Archive Gallery: Fun with Magnetism
Seven Men Can't Dislodge This Pipe From This Magnet Incredible lifting power, at-home experiments, pretty patterns and more My second grade teacher had a pair of supermagnets. She wowed us with them one day, lifting a metal barstool by just holding onto the tiny silver nub. We were allowed to play with them only when closely supervised. Apparently, a couple years back, a girl had pointed one magnet at the other from across a table, and it had zipped up and hit her in the face. Click here to enter the gallery. Magnets are good for more than impressing and/or injuring children, though. A stroll through our archives reveals magnets powerful enough to lift not just a barstool, but seven full-grown men (as seen above), and being used for help, not harm, as a scientist devises a way to test for poisons in the bloodstream using magnets. Peruse our gallery to learn more...