Definitionn. a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically
Last update: October 12, 2015
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Adamare, to have an attraction for, it also came to be associated with the loadstone; but since the term was displaced by "diamond" it has had only a figurative and poetical use. [Please select]
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Gold, that's the loadstone. [Please select]
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They always turn to me as naturally as needles turn to a loadstone. [Please select]
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Just as we have astronomical models from the earliest times, so we find knowledge of the loadstone and some of its properties. [Please select]
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), three Sabadeibai (the Java group--Iabadiou) and ten Masniolai where a large loadstone was found. [Please select]
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Near it a reservoir had been fashioned of four sorts of stone--touchstone, pure stone, marble, and loadstone. [Please select]
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The magnet, or loadstone, was known to the ancient Greeks many centuries before the Christian era. [Please select]
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Lumps of loadstone formed into balls were preserved in their temples, and looked upon with awe, as possessing mystic properties. [Please select]
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The polarity of the loadstone was observed in China over a thousand years before the Christian era. [Please select]
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, is not given at all in the earlier standard history, and it is by no means proved that the undoubtedly early Chinese knowledge of the loadstone extended to the making of compasses. [Please select]
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