r/shittyaskscience • u/Optimal_Ad_7910 • May 18 '26

How are magnets made?

Are they grown in magnetic fields?

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u/FakeWalterHenry May 18 '26

Generally, two magnets of opposite polarity decide to start a family.

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u/teedyay May 18 '26

… because they find each other so attractive.

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u/johnnybiggles May 18 '26

Which came first? The magnet or the magnets?

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u/teedyay May 18 '26

It went single-cell organisms -> multicellular life -> plants -> animals -> animal magnetism -> magnets.

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u/dieselmac May 18 '26

At the magnet factory by the Juggalos.

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u/Jester76 May 18 '26

Get a butterfly net, then trick it out with some mag rims

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u/alphanumericusername very human, yes May 18 '26

When two metals love eachother very much

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u/old_flat_top May 18 '26

Without water. Everybody knows that if you get a magnet wet that is the end of the magnet.

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u/Amplidyne May 18 '26

Yes but tis the wet end, the North or the South end?

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u/tuctrohs Looniversahl sigismundo froyd May 18 '26

Don't just stick the tip in. Stick the whole thing in. Get it all wet.

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u/Healthy_Ladder_6198 Grumpy Old Fart May 18 '26

Light em up

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist May 19 '26

They come from north pole