• Question: DO YOU THINK YOU CAN CHANGE A PARTICALS MATTER USING MAGNETS?

    Asked by THOMAS GOODMAN to Connor on 15 Jun 2015.
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      Connor Macrae answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      We can’t change a particle as per say with a magnet, but we can change atoms inside a material. For some metals, if you run a magnet over them you can magnetise it by aligning the atoms so-called ‘dipole moments’ – this is the intrinsic magnetic direction of the atom.

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