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Investigating How Magnetism Works Through Slime And Wood
I’m hoping to investigate how magnetism works through different types of substances. I chose two unique substances to test magnetism through: slime and wood. I hypothesize that magnets can still work through slime and that they can work through wood, but I hypothesize that they can’t work through both, because the magnetic field will be blocked too much. I designed five different set-ups to test how the magnets react in different ways using these materials. The results of the experiment proved four out of five parts of my hypothesis correct and proved one part of the hypothesis wrong. I learned from my project that the magnetic field can withstand objects in between magnets, but the more you put between the magnets, the less magnetism there is and slowly it will grow weaker and then finally disappear. More research should be done in the future using different materials to test this scientific principle even more.

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It showed me that magnetism does work strongly through the substance of wood. It showed me that wood was less of an obstacle for the magnet than the slime was. The small magnet followed where the horseshoe went, so I was able to drag the small magnet around by moving the horseshoe magnet. This part of the experiment reminded me of why many people hundreds of years ago thought of magnets as magical and mystical things, like a secret power of wizardry because of things like this. This shows the power of magnetic fields. Finally, in Part 5, my very last part, it showed me that there is only magnetic attraction through slime when there is one layer of slime between two magnets, but when there are two layers of slime between them, the magnetic field is lost. This Part 5 proved this part of my hypothesis wrong because I predicted there would still be attraction between the two sections of slime, but when I performed the experiment I observed there being no attraction.

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