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Definition of Loadstone
1. Noun. A permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically.
Generic synonyms: Permanent Magnet, Static Magnet
Terms within: Magnetic Iron-ore, Magnetite
Definition of Loadstone
1. n. A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
Definition of Loadstone
1. Noun. (alternative form of lodestone) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loadstone
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loadstone
Literary usage of Loadstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1899)
"The loadstone.—It was known to the ancients that certain ores of iron ...
The loadstone consists of equivalent proportions of the two oxides of iron, FeO, ..."
2. Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His by Christoph Christian Sturm (1800)
"These virtues in the loadstone prompted the naturalists to examine farther into it,
... It was observed, that the loadstone does not at all times, ..."
3. Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical by Sir James Emerson Tennent (1860)
"The learned commentator, LANE, says that several Arab writers describe this
mountain of loadstone, and amongst others he instances El ..."
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"DRAWN TO THE loadstone ROCK Ix such risings of fire and risings of sea—the firm
earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, ..."
5. Letters of Euler on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy: Addressed to a by Leonhard Euler, David Brewster, John Griscom (1833)
"Phenomena observable on placing Pieces of Iron near a loadstone. THOUGH the whole
earth may be considered as a vast loadstone, and as encompassed with a ..."
6. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"The attractive powers of the loadstone have been known from a high antiquity,
and are mentioned by Homer, Pythagoras, and Aristotle. ..."
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