in today’s video we’re gonna see if we
can make a magnetic sand by crushing up
[Applause]
a while ago I saw a video with a bunch
of powerful magnets asking will they
blend in a powerful blender they had a
string of those little neodymium magnets
that look like bb’s and they lowered it
down into the blender and blended it
into powder it was pretty cool and we
saw a lot of sparks in that video but I
was kind of disappointed that they
didn’t show anything about what was left
so we’re gonna try blending up some
magnets see if we can replicate that
same effect and then we want to take a
look at that stuff
here’s the basic idea we’ve got a bunch
of powerful neodymium magnets and we’re
going to try and blend those up into a
fine powder and then see what that
powders like is it still magnetic will
it hold itself into whatever shape we
put it into can we use it to make
magnetic slime so we’re gonna try
breaking up and blending up a bunch of
these types of magnets and see what’s
left I’m really hoping that the blender
holds up as well as it’s supposed to
because these things getting hit by the
blades at high speeds hopefully we don’t
have it shatter on us most of these
silvery magnets I have here the really
strong ones are what are called
neodymium magnets and they are largely
comprised of neodymium that’s an atomic
element they also have iron and boron in
them an interesting thing about these
though is they actually can be fairly
brittle now I don’t know if this will
break right now but sometimes these
magnets are powerful enough that just
pulling themselves together they can
actually break on impact so I’m gonna
see if I can get that to happen shatter
perfectly magnet absolutely shattered on
contact I wasn’t sure if it was going to
but it did and that’s just because these
magnets pull on each other so hard
slams together with a lot of surface on
surface contact the whole thing is just
taking a lot of impact it would have
exploded except all of those pieces are
still being attracted down to the magnet
so it doesn’t have enough force to go
anywhere as a first test to see if this
will sort of powder eyes let’s just take
this over to our handle and take a
after going at it with a hammer this is
what is left of one of these magnet
squares so we’ve got the same amount of
material here clearly changed form so it
does kind of feel like sand and you can
see that it’s holding itself together so
is it still magnetic I’m gonna have to
say it’s still somewhat magnetic because
I can pull it apart easily but like it
doesn’t lose pieces there’s not sand
falling off of it
I can just smush it easily I can pull it
apart easily see how it compares in
terms of magnetic strength I’ve got a
steel plate here this magnet on its edge
if it would stay centered there we go in
comparison our magnet sand not even
strong enough to hold itself to the
plate even if we flat it out so it’s
more like the original shape oh you know
what that actually helped it’s
definitely still weak but it now can
hold itself up and that’s probably just
it has more surface area of the sand
that’s actually in contact with the
plate so we have an interesting proof of
concept I think the blender is going to
do a better job than the hammer and
anvil of crushing this stuff into an
even sand like powder so we’re gonna try
that now and boy is it gonna be loud I’m
gonna start off with some of these
fairly small magnets it seems like the
better way to go and take magnets in the
top this way when I remove these at the
top those ones should fall down into the
well it blended them that does not look
like it was really good for our blades
that’s kind of chewed up in there it
also stopped blending after just a few
seconds and I think that the magnets are
being attracted to the base just enough
that it’s holding down underneath the
blades and so it’s just spinning and not
much is happening so we’re just gonna
have to add more magnets into it
[Music]
[Applause]
well we’ve got quite a bit of blended
magnets here but it’s actually in larger
pieces than when we hit it with the
hammer it just ends up getting stuck
down to the bottom and I think it’s just
too attracted to parts of the bottom of
the blender and it’s not really getting
pulled up by any air current created by
those blades so we’re gonna keep trying
to blend this up even more and see what
[Applause]
like this this is how we’re really
getting somewhere we’re getting it small
and blended up I’m just gonna keep doing
this a few more times and see how
looking pretty good liking this stuff so
I’ve now run this through the blender
five times or so and well it’s not like
100% perfectly smooth it’s doing pretty
well
just feel like there’s one little chunk
right here so this is what I was hoping
to see
after the video of the magnets being
blended up yes it blends up the magnets
pretty well but I wanted to see what’s
left so here we’ve got a larger quantity
of this stuff we smashed them up with a
hammer and now we smashed it up with a
blender and this is what we’ve got like
it’s not falling apart like a blob of
sand would and this is completely dry
it’s just holding itself together so it
does have some magnetic attraction to
itself let’s try our steel plate test
again try and give it a nice flat
surface that helped bond a little bit
more last time I think there we go
enough attraction to hold it upside down
see how the attraction is to an actual
magnet though so the powderized magnet
is attracted to the magnet so it’s still
ferromagnetic it still can be attracted
by a printed magnet but it itself has
lost a lot of its magnetic power magnets
can lose their magnetism from heavy
impact and of course when you break them
up so small the polarity is not going to
be all uniform and just facing north and
south the way they are when they’re a
solid piece even if each of these tiny
little pieces still holds its own
magnetic charge they’re now all jumbled
up and pointing in different directions
so it’s not acting as a single magnet
and the magnetic fields can actually
interfere with each other or cancel each
other out to some degree so for this to
have the same amount of magnetic power
as the whole magnets would have been
very unexpected anyway earlier I said we
might try this I’m going to mix up a
batch of slime and see if we can mix
this magnet powder into this line and
make a little bit of magnetic slime like
that
[Music]
all right we’ve got ourselves a little
batch of clear slime here see if we
can’t mix in some of our magnet powder
it’s interesting because of how much the
magnets and kind of likes to stick to
itself it’s having a very hard time
mixing up inside the slime because it
doesn’t like to separate out much we’ve
got some attraction to our very powerful
magnet here looks like we kind of just
have a blob of the sand surrounded by
the slime it’s it’s not very evenly
mixed in of course the magnet is very
attracted to the steel plate underneath
it it is attracted to it but I think
it’s just pulling all of the magnet
stuff through that yep there we go this
is like how to remove your magnets and
from your slime rather than making
magnetic slime here’s our original
magnetic putty we made with some
magnetite powder compare how that gets
attracted to the magnet here it’s not
pulling anything out it’s just pulling
all of it together I could watch that
all day that is like the coolest thing
that you can deal with magnets I think
so making our magnets and our DIY
magnets and into a magnetic slime it
doesn’t work as well as when we use the
artificially created magnetite this
stuff doesn’t mix into the slime very
well at all
so I got to say it’s not as effective
but it’s kind of cool to watch it get
drawn over by a magnet and you can just
pull some of the magnet dust right out
of it
one more thing I wanted to try I wanted
to see what happens if we heat this
stuff up will it just turn into
metallics and will lose all of its
ability to hold itself together all
right
little torch see what you can do a lot
of cool sparks coming off of that I like
that glowing orange here at the top that
went really quickly
it’s holding itself together quite a bit
less any more cohesive once it cools
down a bit see this is just not the same
there’s before we heated it up stays
together in this pile and even if we try
and separate it out into separate little
sanded it just doesn’t do it now that
we’ve heated it up nothing doesn’t hold
together even a little bit just the dust
that was sparking a lot as I smashed it
so I’m gonna try heating it up again and
then while it’s still hot I’m gonna hit
it with the hammer it’s now flatter and
it’s any contact with this steel plate
so it’s not heating up as evenly or as
easily as it was before you know what
I’m just gonna move on up to the big boy
torch ah that was great that was a cool
little shower sparks that’s a cool
shower of sparks too holy cow that is so
[Music]
three two one this is a cool little tool
that lets you actually see magnetic
fields it’s pretty neat it’s got some
magnetic powder in this sheet and it
gets attracted around and when you bring
a magnet into the presence of it you can
actually watch its magnetic field show
up I bring a much stronger magnet near
it the effect is accentuated quite a bit
very powerful magnetic field then when
we compare that to our magnetics and it
shows up a little bit very disjointed
it’s not uniform at all even if it still
has its magnetism it’s not facing all
one direction so it’s not uniform it
doesn’t create one magnetic field that’s
just creating thousands of tiny magnetic
fields that are often interfering with
each other guys that’s not all we’ve
always got more for you to see this box
up at the top is gonna take you directly
to our last video should go check that
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can make a magnetic sand by crushing up
[Applause]
a while ago I saw a video with a bunch
of powerful magnets asking will they
blend in a powerful blender they had a
string of those little neodymium magnets
that look like bb’s and they lowered it
down into the blender and blended it
into powder it was pretty cool and we
saw a lot of sparks in that video but I
was kind of disappointed that they
didn’t show anything about what was left
so we’re gonna try blending up some
magnets see if we can replicate that
same effect and then we want to take a
look at that stuff
here’s the basic idea we’ve got a bunch
of powerful neodymium magnets and we’re
going to try and blend those up into a
fine powder and then see what that
powders like is it still magnetic will
it hold itself into whatever shape we
put it into can we use it to make
magnetic slime so we’re gonna try
breaking up and blending up a bunch of
these types of magnets and see what’s
left I’m really hoping that the blender
holds up as well as it’s supposed to
because these things getting hit by the
blades at high speeds hopefully we don’t
have it shatter on us most of these
silvery magnets I have here the really
strong ones are what are called
neodymium magnets and they are largely
comprised of neodymium that’s an atomic
element they also have iron and boron in
them an interesting thing about these
though is they actually can be fairly
brittle now I don’t know if this will
break right now but sometimes these
magnets are powerful enough that just
pulling themselves together they can
actually break on impact so I’m gonna
see if I can get that to happen shatter
perfectly magnet absolutely shattered on
contact I wasn’t sure if it was going to
but it did and that’s just because these
magnets pull on each other so hard
slams together with a lot of surface on
surface contact the whole thing is just
taking a lot of impact it would have
exploded except all of those pieces are
still being attracted down to the magnet
so it doesn’t have enough force to go
anywhere as a first test to see if this
will sort of powder eyes let’s just take
this over to our handle and take a
after going at it with a hammer this is
what is left of one of these magnet
squares so we’ve got the same amount of
material here clearly changed form so it
does kind of feel like sand and you can
see that it’s holding itself together so
is it still magnetic I’m gonna have to
say it’s still somewhat magnetic because
I can pull it apart easily but like it
doesn’t lose pieces there’s not sand
falling off of it
I can just smush it easily I can pull it
apart easily see how it compares in
terms of magnetic strength I’ve got a
steel plate here this magnet on its edge
if it would stay centered there we go in
comparison our magnet sand not even
strong enough to hold itself to the
plate even if we flat it out so it’s
more like the original shape oh you know
what that actually helped it’s
definitely still weak but it now can
hold itself up and that’s probably just
it has more surface area of the sand
that’s actually in contact with the
plate so we have an interesting proof of
concept I think the blender is going to
do a better job than the hammer and
anvil of crushing this stuff into an
even sand like powder so we’re gonna try
that now and boy is it gonna be loud I’m
gonna start off with some of these
fairly small magnets it seems like the
better way to go and take magnets in the
top this way when I remove these at the
top those ones should fall down into the
well it blended them that does not look
like it was really good for our blades
that’s kind of chewed up in there it
also stopped blending after just a few
seconds and I think that the magnets are
being attracted to the base just enough
that it’s holding down underneath the
blades and so it’s just spinning and not
much is happening so we’re just gonna
have to add more magnets into it
[Music]
[Applause]
well we’ve got quite a bit of blended
magnets here but it’s actually in larger
pieces than when we hit it with the
hammer it just ends up getting stuck
down to the bottom and I think it’s just
too attracted to parts of the bottom of
the blender and it’s not really getting
pulled up by any air current created by
those blades so we’re gonna keep trying
to blend this up even more and see what
[Applause]
like this this is how we’re really
getting somewhere we’re getting it small
and blended up I’m just gonna keep doing
this a few more times and see how
looking pretty good liking this stuff so
I’ve now run this through the blender
five times or so and well it’s not like
100% perfectly smooth it’s doing pretty
well
just feel like there’s one little chunk
right here so this is what I was hoping
to see
after the video of the magnets being
blended up yes it blends up the magnets
pretty well but I wanted to see what’s
left so here we’ve got a larger quantity
of this stuff we smashed them up with a
hammer and now we smashed it up with a
blender and this is what we’ve got like
it’s not falling apart like a blob of
sand would and this is completely dry
it’s just holding itself together so it
does have some magnetic attraction to
itself let’s try our steel plate test
again try and give it a nice flat
surface that helped bond a little bit
more last time I think there we go
enough attraction to hold it upside down
see how the attraction is to an actual
magnet though so the powderized magnet
is attracted to the magnet so it’s still
ferromagnetic it still can be attracted
by a printed magnet but it itself has
lost a lot of its magnetic power magnets
can lose their magnetism from heavy
impact and of course when you break them
up so small the polarity is not going to
be all uniform and just facing north and
south the way they are when they’re a
solid piece even if each of these tiny
little pieces still holds its own
magnetic charge they’re now all jumbled
up and pointing in different directions
so it’s not acting as a single magnet
and the magnetic fields can actually
interfere with each other or cancel each
other out to some degree so for this to
have the same amount of magnetic power
as the whole magnets would have been
very unexpected anyway earlier I said we
might try this I’m going to mix up a
batch of slime and see if we can mix
this magnet powder into this line and
make a little bit of magnetic slime like
that
[Music]
all right we’ve got ourselves a little
batch of clear slime here see if we
can’t mix in some of our magnet powder
it’s interesting because of how much the
magnets and kind of likes to stick to
itself it’s having a very hard time
mixing up inside the slime because it
doesn’t like to separate out much we’ve
got some attraction to our very powerful
magnet here looks like we kind of just
have a blob of the sand surrounded by
the slime it’s it’s not very evenly
mixed in of course the magnet is very
attracted to the steel plate underneath
it it is attracted to it but I think
it’s just pulling all of the magnet
stuff through that yep there we go this
is like how to remove your magnets and
from your slime rather than making
magnetic slime here’s our original
magnetic putty we made with some
magnetite powder compare how that gets
attracted to the magnet here it’s not
pulling anything out it’s just pulling
all of it together I could watch that
all day that is like the coolest thing
that you can deal with magnets I think
so making our magnets and our DIY
magnets and into a magnetic slime it
doesn’t work as well as when we use the
artificially created magnetite this
stuff doesn’t mix into the slime very
well at all
so I got to say it’s not as effective
but it’s kind of cool to watch it get
drawn over by a magnet and you can just
pull some of the magnet dust right out
of it
one more thing I wanted to try I wanted
to see what happens if we heat this
stuff up will it just turn into
metallics and will lose all of its
ability to hold itself together all
right
little torch see what you can do a lot
of cool sparks coming off of that I like
that glowing orange here at the top that
went really quickly
it’s holding itself together quite a bit
less any more cohesive once it cools
down a bit see this is just not the same
there’s before we heated it up stays
together in this pile and even if we try
and separate it out into separate little
sanded it just doesn’t do it now that
we’ve heated it up nothing doesn’t hold
together even a little bit just the dust
that was sparking a lot as I smashed it
so I’m gonna try heating it up again and
then while it’s still hot I’m gonna hit
it with the hammer it’s now flatter and
it’s any contact with this steel plate
so it’s not heating up as evenly or as
easily as it was before you know what
I’m just gonna move on up to the big boy
torch ah that was great that was a cool
little shower sparks that’s a cool
shower of sparks too holy cow that is so
[Music]
three two one this is a cool little tool
that lets you actually see magnetic
fields it’s pretty neat it’s got some
magnetic powder in this sheet and it
gets attracted around and when you bring
a magnet into the presence of it you can
actually watch its magnetic field show
up I bring a much stronger magnet near
it the effect is accentuated quite a bit
very powerful magnetic field then when
we compare that to our magnetics and it
shows up a little bit very disjointed
it’s not uniform at all even if it still
has its magnetism it’s not facing all
one direction so it’s not uniform it
doesn’t create one magnetic field that’s
just creating thousands of tiny magnetic
fields that are often interfering with
each other guys that’s not all we’ve
always got more for you to see this box
up at the top is gonna take you directly
to our last video should go check that
out the other box shows you what YouTube
thinks you can be watching next ok this
bomb here in the middle you’ll be
subscribed to the channel that way
you’re never gonna miss out on a cool
video don’t forget to ring that Bell and
we’ll soon the next one talk to them [Music]
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