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[challenge entry] When the laws of physics packed up during a simple experiment with iron filings....


....Doctor Simons had no choice but to send class 1a home early.

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(Burt Reynolds, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 12:59, archived)
# What is it with Physics and iron fillings
every experiment we did at school invovled magnets and iron fillings.

woo ;)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:01, archived)
# Worthless when stolen,
and extremely difficult with which to damage yourself or others.

Young science teachers learn very quickly to skip the part of the syllabus involving acids and bunsen burners.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:03, archived)
# Add to that - useless for any other experiment other
than to see the polar effects from a magnet.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:05, archived)
# not entirely true
if you can get hold of iron filings, aluminium and a strip of magnesium ribbon as a fuse you can weld pretty much anything metal together. It's what holds railway tracks together.

edit: (and lab chairs to floors, staplers to tables etc)
(mary magdalen, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:08, archived)
# MaGyver!!! (spelt wrong I'm sure)
(eyebrows, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:13, archived)
# nah....
just an inventive approach to school disruption as a child.
(mary magdalen, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:17, archived)
# Mmmmmmm...
Potassium Permanganate and er... anything really. With Glycerin it makes a kind of home-made napalm.
(I helped save b3ta! PastorSauce : easy on the anchovies..., Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:33, archived)
# yuk
sounds like the ingredients for Diet Coke with Lemon to me.
(Burt Reynolds, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:54, archived)
# Have you ever had iron filings in your eyes?
Hurts like hell*

*hasn't ever had them in his eye
(wobblyjelly, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:18, archived)
# how true
weights and springs seemed to be another constant too.
(negative armadillo There never was much hope..just a fool's hope., Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:04, archived)
# Ticka tape!!!
What a crock of shite!
(eyebrows, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:14, archived)
# another
and giraffe squeezing. Boring or what?
(Burt Reynolds, Tue 22 Jun 2004, 14:16, archived)