Question
How did we come to know that magnet is helpful to find (detect) directions?
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Answer
About 800 years ago, Chinese saw that a hanging lodestone always comes to rest in a particular direction i.e., north-south. Therefore, they came to know about finding the direction with the help of lodestone.
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