Iron filings

Iron filings are sprinkled on a bar magnet, showing the magnetic field lines.

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Here is a fun little tip for containing the mess when using iron filings and magnets with kids! We have been studying about magnets in the middle boys’ science book. It’s always fun to use iron filings to see the lines of a magnet’s magnetic field, but with a 4 year old and a toddler […]

Here's an element factoid for you: Not all iron is magnetic. Here's the science behind the fact.

Simple experiments with to visualize magnetic fields. Read more about these here.

While working their website, the Barcelona design studio Norte stumbled across the wonderful snowy effect that charged iron filings made and from there

Life is like a magnet. We all attract and repel all the time. We attract the things that are most like us and our thoughts, and we repel things that aren’t like us. Once we know what we love and...