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How Lightning Makes Magnets

Science Underground by Ainissa Ramirez

May 15, 201602:00Science & Medicine

When lightning bolts zap iron minerals they make magnets called lodestones. NASA scientists coax bolts to strike rocks using a trick from Ben Franklin.

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How Lightning Makes Magnets is an episode from Science Underground by Ainissa Ramirez. When lightning bolts zap iron minerals they make magnets called lodestones. NASA scientists coax bolts to strike rocks using a trick from Ben Franklin. T...

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Published May 15, 2016, 02:00 long, audio available.

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