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highwaystar101 said:
You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?

I hold onto one and put the other inside stof's computer next to the motherboard.

If he's still posting in half an hour, I'm holding the magnetic one.



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Were they members of a religious cult?



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Words Of Wisdom said:
highwaystar101 said:
You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?

I hold onto one and put the other inside stof's computer next to the motherboard.

If he's still posting in half an hour, I'm holding the magnetic one.

Haha, not quite. Although we did that to my mates old computer once.



highwaystar101 said:
You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?

We all have a magnetic spot somewhere in our forehead (you can try it out with a nickle!) so you could bring the rods to your forehead to test them out.

 



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Did one of them do something like release a chemical or start a fire which killed them?



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highwaystar101 said:
You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?

We all have a magnetic spot somewhere in our forehead (you can try it out with a nickle!) so you could bring the rods to your forehead to test them out.

 

 

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could try tying a string around each pole and spinning them to see if they align with the earth's magnetic poles. Should work like a lodestone from back in the day. The one that consistently ends up in the same orientation is the magnetic rod.



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