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Advanced students:
• Mass/ weigh out the same amount of cereal for 3–4 different brands.
• Attract the iron from the water slurries controlling the amount of time allowed for the attraction.
• Mass/weigh the amount of actual iron attracted to the magnet using an electronic pan balance:
• Graph the resulting data and compare.
Test Your Understanding:
Why is iron attracted to magnets so easily?
• The electrons in iron are easily influenced by a magnetic field. The domains align very easily and work together to create
magnetic attraction (Student answers may vary).
Magnetic Force Fields: Attractive Breakfast Cereal!
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