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Lodestone   Listen
noun
Lodestone  n.  (Min.) Same as Loadstone.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lodestone" Quotes from Famous Books



... was seen to "vary": an important scientific discovery—viz., that the magnetic needle does not always point to the pole-star. Some writers have imagined that the compass was for the first time utilized for a long journey by Columbus, but the occult power of the magnetic needle or "lodestone" had been known for ages before the fifteenth century. The ancient Persians and other "wise men of the East" used the lodestone as a talisman. Both the Mongolian and Caucasian races used it as an infallible guide in traveling across the mighty plains ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson



Words linked to "Lodestone" :   magnetite, loadstone, static magnet



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