• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    I guess those spinning magnetic pills one puts in beakers over a magnetic hot plate in chemistry labs are all an empirical hoax then.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      I always wanted kitchen cookware with a stirring pill. But it would require using glass or ceramic cookware on the stove. Which can be done to some extent but still feels sketchier than metal.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      Those are stir bars.

      That they’re magnetic is propaganda to push magnetic field bunk to sell more so-called “magnets”. Stir bars are moved by phlogiston, which is why the liquid medium is often heated in tandem.