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1 posted on 07/01/2021 8:29:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Yea, static cling


2 posted on 07/01/2021 8:45:04 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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As a kid I use to go down to the local wash with a magnet and collect iron filings. Obviously the wind from a similar place has blown this as dust onto a windshield.


3 posted on 07/01/2021 8:45:40 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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I'm guessing what you're seeing there is the phenomenon of paramagnetism.

There are some videos on YT of a living frog being levitated inside a (very strong) magnetic solenoid. Same effect.

I suspect the magnet that is being used in that video is one of those neodymium rare-earth magnets, which are extremely powerful. Paramagnetism is only seen with at very high field strengths; the dust scraped by the credit card is very fine, with micron-sized particles, each of which weighs almost nothing.

4 posted on 07/01/2021 8:47:11 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Burning coal generates fly ash — dust containing magnetic iron oxides and other minerals that are impurities trapped in the coal. I suspect the residue in the video is fly ash. It is generally captured from coal-fired power plants in this country, but perhaps not in others.


5 posted on 07/01/2021 8:50:41 AM PDT by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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