2 sentences with 'magnetised'

Example sentences and phrases with the word magnetised and other words derived from it.

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« Since ancient times it has been known that a magnetised needle, suspended by its centre of gravity, always points in the same direction. Although this was used by man to orient himself, he never knew the reason or the cause of this phenomenon. »
« In the 17th century, William Gilbert, while experimenting, brought a magnetised needle close to a sphere of magnetite and found, not without astonishment, that it oriented in the same direction as that observed on the Earth's surface. The analogy came naturally: the Earth is - or acts - like a gigantic spherical magnet. »

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