![]() Check out the video below to see some slow motion footage of us breaking magnets. You can break smaller magnets just as easily. Don’t be fooled, though, it’s not just big magnets that can break with an impact. We’ve made a number of exciting videos slamming really big magnets together, usually breaking something along the way. You might think that metallic-looking magnets can slam together a little, but that impact can be more like tossing your coffee mug onto the sidewalk. If you let them slam together, they can reach some incredible speeds just before impact. Magnets are like coffee mugs that are attracted to one another. Fortunately, coffee cups aren’t normally attracted to one another like magnets! If you slam two coffee cups together, you expect something to break. It’s OK to bang two pieces of steel together. Let’s keep comparing steel and coffee cups to keep the analogy going. Neodymium magnets are more like a ceramic than a piece of steel.Īllowing magnets to hit each other is bad. You can’t bend a ceramic coffee mug! If you try bending a neodymium magnet, it breaks. This isn’t true for non-ductile materials like glass or ceramic. ![]() You can deform the steel without it breaking. For example, you can bend a steel paperclip into a different shape. Steel or aluminum are ductile metals that many of us have experience handling. If a material is ductile, that means you can bend or reshape it before it breaks. ![]()
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