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Ten tons of sulphuric acid and ten tons of iron filings, were put on board for the future production of the hydrogen gas.

fingered every spear of grass and iron filing, shot each poppy into fire

On the Commute

All that's unresolved inside her pulls her toward other people's tragedies like iron filings to a magnet, the "pull of 'helping' drawing her." And there are plenty of people for her to snag against.

Strangers in Budapest

ALEXANDER TODD ALEXANDER Todd's fascination with science was sparked by experimenting with iron filings in a toy chemistry set when he was eight.

A Nobel cause; prize guys SCOTS CHEMIST JOINS NATION'S LONG LIST OF LAUREATES

In the beginning stages of cam failure, though, the cam might shed fine iron filings that are nearly impossible to notice.

Metal in the oil filter: benign to catastrophic: with few exceptions, an oil filter should be free of metal contaminants. Identifying the metal by type can help determine what part of the engine it came from

The thick paintings-cum-sculptures by this Minneapolis-based artist were studded with a series of zigzags, sometimes delineated in copper wire, sometimes drawn with iron filings and glue, sometimes simply carved into the depth of the material.

Jay Heikes: Federica Schiavo Gallery

Eliot's traditions; Ezra Pound's iron filings; and newly visible, often transdisciplinary networks that now seek to connect disparate works, writers, artists, and spaces into a new modernism.

Modernism: Evolution of an Idea

The installed plate magnets are even removing and capturing fine iron filings from the conveyed plastic.

Case study: UK plastics recycler makes metal contamination stoppages a thing of the past

Playing on the ionization terminology, these modern day snake oil salesmen would have you believe that these ions behave in the presence of a physical magnet like iron filings in a plastic tray.

Kinder, gentler, softer water

"It was a day I'll never forget," remembers the teetotal McCoy, who drew once-a-year gamblers like iron filings to a magnet as Don't Push It's odds halved from 20-1 to 10-1 joint-favourite.

Last hurrah for the man with Grand National running through his veins; GRAND NATIONAL; SPOTLIGHT ON AP McCOY AND A DATE WITH DESTINY

If the Milky Way were one giant magnet, sprinkling iron filings around it would trace the galaxy's magnetic field.

Milky Way's magnetic field mapped