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Water compass
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Ciro Santilli
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Updated
2025-04-24
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Created
2024-09-19
We
define
a
"
water compass
"
as
a
compass
made by placing
a
magnet
floating on
a
water
surface
to reduce
friction
and allow it to align with the
Earth's magnetic field
. This is
a
common children'
s
scientific
experiment
.
Video 1.
Bar
magnet
aligns with
Earth
'
s
magnetic axis by KClassScienceChannel
.
Source
.
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