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How will you decide which one of those is magnet?

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You are confined in a room and given two metal rods. Out of these two rods, one is magnet and the other is the iron rod. They look starkly similar. You don't have any other metal object in the room.

How will you decide which one of those is magnet?

posted Sep 5, 2014 by Samardeep Acharya

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Hang the rods in a rope the magnet will always will be in the north -south direction.

answer Sep 11, 2014 by anonymous



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