O/T: Is rust magnetic?
 

Slightly O/T but does anyone know if rust particles will stick to a
strong magnet?

sponix

s--p--o--n--i--x wrote:
Slightly O/T but does anyone know if rust particles will stick to a
strong magnet?

sponix
Try no more nails :)

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:54:49 GMT,it is alleged that
(s--p--o--n--i--x) spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:

Slightly O/T but does anyone know if rust particles will stick to a
strong magnet?

They should, red iron oxide (aka dehydrated rust) was used for old
'ferric' magnetic recording tapes.

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:54:49 +0000, s--p--o--n--i--x wrote:

Slightly O/T but does anyone know if rust particles will stick to a
strong magnet?

Yes and there is a device marketed to collect the rust in CH systems using
a magnet as the water circulates.

I'm not sure that the brown rust is magnetic. However I think it
probably is as it is the element Iron itself which is magnetic not a
chemical property of compounds.

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s--p--o--n--i--x wrote:
Slightly O/T but does anyone know if rust particles will stick to a
strong magnet?

sponix
The particles of rust I've scraped off rusty items certainly have been.

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:54:49 +0000, s--p--o--n--i--x wrote:

Slightly O/T but does anyone know if rust particles will stick to a
strong magnet?

Yes and there is a device marketed to collect the rust in CH systems using
a magnet as the water circulates.

They say they use the same stuff in Magnetec oil, and suspends the iron
particles in the water. Then you drain.