magnet steel

British

noun

engineering steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper

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At that moment a hand grasped hers—a magic grasp: it felt like heart meeting heart, or magnet steel.

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Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter.

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Its heart is an ever-turning aluminum wheel, with hundreds of small strips of magnet steel projecting from its rim.

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At that moment a hand grasped hers—a magic grasp; it felt like heart meeting heart, or magnet steel.

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