On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:51 AM, H Ucar <[email protected]> wrote: I don't want to play with larger magnets because when they become > unstabilized can fly away in random directions and when meet iron > furniture, materials or other magnets it get damaged.
Yes, this is a real danger. I intentionally brought two strong neodymium magnets I had purchased over Amazon close to one another, not having done this before. There was a brief "SNAP" and some odd-colored sparks. One of the magnets, a square one, was apparently a little more fragile than the other magnet, and all four corners had broken off and shattered, but were still stuck to the surface of the other. I wasn't sure how to separate the two magnets. I did a quick Internet search and saw that you should put on gloves before attempting to do so and then use the edge of a counter or table to push them apart. They were so strongly bound together that I had doubts that they were going to cleanly separate, although they did after some effort. Eric
