When you demonstrate the magnetic field of a bar magnet using iron filings, ... Thin iron line. ... We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.

Equipment: A compass, iron filings, a current carrying conductor and a 40 Amp power supply. What it does: The compass shows the direction of the field lines around the conductor. The iron filings line ...

Magnets are made from magnetic metals – iron, ... Although we cannot see magnetic field lines, we can detect them using iron filings. The tiny pieces of iron line up in a magnetic field.

Designer Ariane Spanier crafted a dynamic and dimensional typeface using only refrigerator magnets purchased from a 99-cent store and acrylic paint mixed with iron filings.

Iron filings reveal the pattern of a magnet's invisible force field.Saturday, March 20th, was not only Vernal Equinox, but the annual Sun-Earth Day: a NASA-promoted effort around the country to focus ...

By scattering iron filings into oil-laden water, Arden Warner found the filings selectively join onto the oil. Then it's just a simple matter of using a magnet to sweep the oily iron filings up up.

Captivating slow motion footage shows millions of tiny iron fillings swirling and dancing around a large magnet after being thrown towards it in a series of tricks. The mesmerising video, which is ...

[David Durlach] was showing off his Choreographed Iron Dust, a 9 x 9 grid of magnets covered in iron filings. The filings swayed and danced to the beat of the music, at times appearing more like ...