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You should use a wire with the best electric conductivity (copper or silver) and wrap it around a (soft) iron core. The wire creates the magnetic field, the iron core concentrates it and turns into a magnet when a voltage is applied to the wire.
Iron has rather poor conductivity and malleability so is not suited as the coil of an electromagnet.
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When you make a homemade electromagnet with wire and a nail and a battery does stripping the wire that is coiled around the nail make the electromagnet stronger?
No, this will stop the magnet from functioning and is the same as using a short thick wire instead of a long coiled wire.
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What are the arrangement of moving magnets and wire coil called?
electromagnet
How do you make a single negatve pole electro magnet?
Wrap copper wire around a nail, then attach the ends of the wire to a D battery with tape to make an electromagnet.
Strong temporary magnet formed when a current is passed through a coil of wire?
A magnetic field.
What will be attracted or repelled by a magnet?
An aluminum wire carrying current An electromagnet An iron pipe (Apex)
Does using thicker wire make a electromagnet more powerful?
The wire in a electromagnet is the conductive property transferring power. The thicker the wire the more power transferred to the electromagnet for a exponential amount of power.
Why is wire better than copper wire on an electromagnet?
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When you make a homemade electromagnet with wire and a nail and a battery does stripping the wire that is coiled around the nail make the electromagnet stronger?
No, this will stop the magnet from functioning and is the same as using a short thick wire instead of a long coiled wire.
Is a toothpick a part of an electromagnet?
Not generally, although MacGuyver could make an electromagnet with a toothpick and a spool of wire.
How do you make an electromagnet with a rivet and a wire?
Wrap the wire around the rivet as many times as you can, and connect the ends of the wire to a battery.Turning on the electricity turns on the electromagnet. More turns of wire means a stronger magnet.See also related Wikipedia link.
How do you make an electromagnet field stronger?
You could either put a bar of iron in the center of the electromagnet, increase the voltage that you put in, or make more loops of wire.
How do you make a electromagnet stronger?
For a simple copper wire around iron nail electromagnet, increasing the number of rounds the copper wire makes around the nail will increase the electromagnet's strength. Also, increasing the voltage applied(adding a battery) will increase the magnetic field.
How did Bell use the electromagnet in the telephone?
He wound wire around it to make a tranformer.
How will you make an electromagnet stronger without changing the electric cell fitted to the circuit?
Adding more turns of wire to the electromagnet will make it stronger without changing the applied voltage.
What metal are use to make electric wire and why?
copper plated aluminum wire
How does the number of wraps of wire affect the strength of an electromagnet?
The more turns of wire in an electromagnet the stronger the magnetic field.
