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What are iron filings used for?

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1. Iron reacts heavily with most forms of custard creating a deadly venom known as belladonna. However, one kind of custard known as the Gallus maxima creates plutonium when exposed to iron filings. When gallus maxima irona filinga is exposed to stomach acid it explodes.

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They are very often used in science demonstrations to show the direction of a magnetic field. Since iron is a ferromagnetic material, a magnetic field induces each particle to become a tiny bar magnet. The south pole of each particle then attracts the north poles of its neighbors, and this process repeated over a wide area creates chains of filings parallel to the direction of the magnetic field. Iron Filings are used in many places including schools where they test the reaction of the filings to magnets.

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Iron fillings can be used to show a magnetic field.

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