PURPOSE: To demonstrate a magnet.

DESCRIPTION: Genuine lodestone (magnetite, ^**Fe₃O₄).

SETUP TIME: Minimal

COMPONENT LIST:

 Lodestone					Magnet Area, EM Shelves

SUGGESTIONS: It is a very poor magnet, nothing like the one that Lady Montagu claimed to have seen in 1716: " ...a small piece of loadstone that held up an anchor of steel too heavy for me to life." (Letter to Alexander Pope, Oct. 10)

REFERENCES: 2122 4.27; PIRA 5G10.15

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