Wednesday, 8 February 2012

what are your door handles made of?

You remember of course our little puzzle; the one where we found that there are some metals, like gold…..

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and ‘door-handle’…..

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that do not stick to a magnet.  Well, some of us did a further investigation in which we tested different kinds of metal to see which of them would stick to a magnet.

We tested brass…..

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and copper…..

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and iron.

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And a few other metals besides.

This…..

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is what we found out.

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And now we think we know what our door handle is made of.  I wonder; what do you think?

(PS How on earth did we get from a fishing game to door handles?)

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