Hi! I am doing a report on Iron and i have to do an experiment with something to do with iron. I really had know ideas, but my friend said I can use a magnet and ceral and do some sort of experiment. Does anyone have any cool experiments i could do that involve iron?Thanks for reading and any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Iron can do many things: its a great conductor of heat, electricity and magnetism. Its very stable at room temperature. Its very strong and weighs less than many other metals for its strength. - The most common chemical experiment with iron is to expose it to water. H20 + Fe Rust, respresents a basic chemical change - You can magnetize a bar of iron by exposing it to a strong magnetic field for a period of time. The iron molecules eventually align along the magnetic field lines, causing them to induce a field when the magnetic source is removed, representing a basic physical change in the state of the iron bar - You can wrap a copper coil around the iron bar, attaching either end to a battery which causes the iron bar to instantly turn into an 'electric magnet' - If you wrap a copper coil around a ring and attach either end of the coil to a voltmeter, you can insert a magnetized iron bar in and out of the ring repeated to generate a small electric current. - You can shave the iron bar into iron filings which, when exposed to a magnetic field under a sheet of while paper demonstrate the magnetic field lines associated with the magnet below the paper
