loadstone
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]loadstone (plural loadstones)
- Alternative form of lodestone
- 1818, Thomas Brown, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition, page 83:
- [M]agnetic action […] is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone.
Translations
[edit]lodestone — see lodestone