How much iron is there in your favorite cereal?

If you put a cereal flake in a bowl of water you can steer it with a strong magnet. The magnets above aren’t strong enough, but the really powerful ones below (that are dangerous to pull apart as they can actually injure you) are:

And if you grind the cereal into powder, the powder sticks to the magnet because of the iron atoms in the cereal:

Inspired by the Veritasium channel.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s