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Why should you see gloves to sprinkle iron filings?​
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Why can iron filings be used to visualize a magnetic field?

Iron filings are small shavings of a ferromagnetic material. Ferromagnetic (for the purposes of this page, at least) means that they will align themselves with a magnetic field. That being the case, iron filings are an excellent way to display the magnetic field of one or multiple bar magnets.

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