can rubber gloves affect how a magnet attract metal?

Answer 1

It depends on the type of rubber, how their manufactured and if they have been neutralized. Many different forms of "Rubber" gloves exist. They are generally a molded product produced by covering a very smooth model or mandrel with the material they are formed from and allowed to "Set up".

When the gloves are removed from this ultra smooth surface and packaged, an extremely high level of static charge can develop across the surface and be retained as a static potential.

As new gloves rather than old, tend to produce the greatest effect, rubber gloves can indeed affect a magnetic field in attempting to balance their retained charge, even unto the point of a static discharge if an adequate source to ground is established.

For example, iron shavings on a piece of paper will react quite actively to the gloves being passed beneath the paper in close proximity to it.

Answer 2

They would have small effects, most nonmagnetic materials don't have much influence in how the magnetic field behaves, but they still have some effect (different permeability constants, etc). Nothing you would really be able to measure aside of seperating the magnet from the metal. The advantage of putting a rubber glove in between the magnet and the metal is, however the coefficient of friction would be much higher, they would be much less likely to slip against one another with a thin rubber glove between them

Answer 3

Only by maintaining a 'minimum distance' between the magnet and the metal. This, in turn, slightly reduces the strength with which the magnet attracts the metal at equilibrium (field strength falls off as 1/r²)


Doug

Answer 4

that's something cool to objective. (I used to do it as a new child; i understand, i substitute right into a extraordinary new child) Take a medium sized magnet and hover it over a pile of airborne dirt and airborne dirt and dust- you would be surprised at what proportion stuff get caught to the magnet. possibly the metallic residences in the soil.

Answer 5

I would imagine not. magnetism is able to travel through any medium. This is not the same with electricity. They are two separate ideas.

Answer 6

don't think so... perhaps only slightly? cos magnetism is a completely different phenomenon from electricity

Answer 7

No.