how could i make a magnet?is it possible?

Answer 1

I know a way you can magnetize a paper clip or a nail. With a strong magnet, rub the paper clip or nail in one direction. This will align their domain. They will only remain magnetized for a short period, and it's not even a strong magnet, but it's still pretty cool. Now if you want to create a magnet from scratch, I'm really not sure. Sorry!

Answer 2

Several ways.

You can make a temporary electro-magnet by winding a wire coil round a soft iron rod. While the current is running, the rod is magnetic; it stops when you turn off the current. The stronger the current, the stronger the magnetic force.

If you use a steel rod rather than iron, the magnetism will remain without the current, but not as strong.

An interesting way is to take a steel bar, line it up in line with Magnetic North (use a compass to find this). Support the rod so the southern end is on a hard surface, and the rod is inclined at about your own latitude from horizontal (so around 40 - 45 degrees for much of the US - the exact angle isn't too critical). Give the free end a heavy whack with a hammer so you're hitting along the rod axis. You will then shake up the molecules in the rod, and they will tend to re-align with the Earths magnetic field - so the rod becomes magnetic!

Answer 3

Electrical flux induces a magnetic field. That means that current, like that which drives all kinds of electrical devices, can be manipulated to create a magnetic field.

Buy some copper wire and take the plastic lining off of it. Then coil it tightly around a pencil or pen. Make sure the coils are very, very tightly packed, and use as much wire as you can, but leave a few inches of wire free on the ends. Then, attatch these free ends to the terminals of a battery.

The current flowing through the coiled wire will induce a magnetic field both inside the coil, and around it, arcing from one side to the other. If you hold a static magnet up to it, you should feel the attraction. You should also be able to pick up small metal objects. This set-up is what is known as an electro-magnet.

The real beauty of the process is that it can work the other way around. Moving a magnetic field induces an elctrical flux, or current. This is how power plants develop current that is transmitted via power lines right into your home.

Answer 4

Typically, it's possible to make an electromagnet quite simply.

All you need is some wire (preferrably insulated) which you can wrap around a magnetic object - a long nail will usually do - and then attach to a power source (try a C-cell battery; they've got enough juice to give you a good reaction, but not enough to shock you badly if you have a little accident).

It turns out that when you put a magnetic object into an electrical current, you get an electromagnet.

Have fun!

Answer 5

Yes! The usual way is a coil of wire around a steel bar and pass DC through the coil - like from a car battery and it will magnetise the steel. A weird way is to point the steel bar towards magnetic North and hit the end with a hammer. I don't know how or why the second method works. But it does! LOL

Answer 6

Just rub a metal against the magnet and it's get the electrons of it, so it will become a magnet!

Answer 7

Melt a metal like iron to a very high temperature and pass a very large current through it. Now let the metal solidify while the current is still running. Cut current off ; Afterward you will have a stong permenent magnet.

Answer 8

There is a kind of rock that if you rub with another one makes a weak magnetic field. You can find it in the yellow river.

Answer 9

You get a nail or screw, a battery and a length of wire.

Wind the wire around the screw or nail.

Hold one end of wire to positive terminal of battery and the other end of the wire to the negative terminal of the battery.

Let the circuit run for a few minutes.

Et voila! a magnet!!!

Answer 10

To make one without using any natural magnet, you will have to apply the principle of electromagnetic theory.