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  • By the way, an approaching dust storm though I wouldn't want to experience it provides a good example of what a cold front, or gust front ahead of a cold front, actually looks like if it were visible -- sort of like looking at a magnet's magnetic field by sprinkling iron filings on a piece of paper over the magnet.

    Remembering the Dust Bowl of the 1930s Don Lipman 2010

  • Inspiration as such is accounted for by the magnet's magnetism, inspired madness by the straight lines of attraction.

    Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008

  • This meant that a magnet's invisible field could push electrons in a wire across empty space, creating a current.

    'Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel' 2008

  • Now, I'm not going to get into the physics of it, but all you need to know is that the faster the magnet's falling, the greater the stopping force.

    Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht demo toys from the future Zach Kaplan Keith Schacht 2005

  • Now, I'm not going to get into the physics of it, but all you need to know is that the faster the magnet's falling, the greater the stopping force.

    Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht demo toys from the future Zach Kaplan Keith Schacht 2005

  • Now, I'm not going to get into the physics of it, but all you need to know is that the faster the magnet's falling, the greater the stopping force.

    Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht demo toys from the future Zach Kaplan Keith Schacht 2005

  • Peter explained how to differentiate the magnet's north pole from its south, stated the rule for the attraction and repulsion of poles, knew the fundamentals of magnetic induction, and discussed the possibility of breaking magnets into smaller pieces that would become mag - nets in turn.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

  • While the group waited for the magnet's arrival, they quizzed their three prisoners.

    Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine Almquist, John 1954

  • Since the ship was made of the Venerian metal, coronium, which was only slightly magnetic, the plate was obviously the magnet's only load.

    The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell 1940

  • But beyond this, are there not far subtler influences, which in one form or another draw every man away from the course he would naturally steer for himself as surely as the iron deflects the magnet's needle?

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

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