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WE are glad to welcome a really admirable attempt to place before students the modern doctrines concerning electricity and magnetism in a popular but reasonably accurate form. The book begins with a ...

Magnets have a north pole and a south pole. Two of the same pole will repel each other, while opposites attract. Only certain materials, especially those that contain iron, can be magnets. And there’s ...

Metals are the only substances that are magnetic. But some metals are magnetic and some are not. The most common magnetic metal is iron. You don't see too many objects made of pure iron but you do see ...

Lindsay Lohan is taking magnetism lessons to learn how to lift metallic objects with her mind. The actress met Romanian Aurel Raileanu on Facebook and plans to fly him to LA to teach her to make ...

We know magnetism as a fundamental force of nature that plays a crucial role in both the natural world and modern technology. It governs the behavior of materials at the atomic level and is essential ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge, this effect ...

THIS well-known book has become almost a classic for those beginning the study of electricity and magnetism. It is an encyclopædia of information on all things electrical. A new edition of a volume ...