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Bar magnet   /bɑr mˈægnət/   Listen
Bar magnet

noun
1.
A magnet in the form of a bar with magnetic poles at each end.





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"Bar magnet" Quotes from Famous Books



... quality, yet never lose any of its own. Steel alone, of all the metals, has the decided quality of retaining its property of being a magnet. A "bar" magnet is a straight piece of steel magnetized. A "horseshoe" magnet is a bar magnet bent into the form of the ...
— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele
... ends, and laying it down on the table, the projecting end of the temporary magnet which projected from the spool was put into contact with the hard steel rod, and slowly drawn along to the end. The soft bar magnet was then raised up and again repeated, as shown in the drawing (Fig. 20), where the dotted line (A) represents the movement of the ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay


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