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Magnetic

Magnetic

1. A magnet. As the magnetic hardest iron draws. (Milton)

2. Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc, which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.


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