{"id":382,"date":"2011-08-05T16:52:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/iron-man-2-sammy-the-silicon-polymer-seal\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T18:48:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T00:48:59","slug":"magneticsillyputty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/magneticsillyputty\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Man 2: Sammy The Silly (Putty) Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re following along in our Iron Man series, you know that we still have most of the 5 pound bag of iron oxide powder (Fe_{3<\/sub>O_{4<\/sub>, or magnetite) we purchased off of Amazon.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that 5 pounds of iron oxide powder goes a long way. And it turns out that iron oxide powder mixes into Silly Putty very easily<\/a>.<\/p>\n}}

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1. Protect your work surface (old newspaper works great)<\/p>\n
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2. Incorporate iron oxide powder into the silly putty. Knead it like bread dough, squish it, stretch it, whatever it takes.<\/p>\n
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The final product should look very black and glossy.<\/p>\n
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The Putty now has enough iron in it (Magnetite has a high percentage of iron\u00c2\u00a0 relative to oxygen \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 3 iron atoms for every 4 oxygen atoms) to be attracted to a magnet.<\/p>\n
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And here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a video we made after shaping the Silly Putty into Sammy, the Silly Putty Seal. Sammy was supposed to be a dog but all of our attempts at creating a dog ended in Seal.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n <\/p>\nWe will probably add more iron oxide powder after this, and see if that makes things even more interesting.<\/p>\nIf you try this, please take pictures or videos and post the link here! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to see what you come up with.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nHere the link to our previous project:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/iron-man-1-reading-a-magnetic-strip\/\">Iron Man 1: Reading a Magnetic Strip<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\nWarnings:<\/span><\/p>\nRare Earth Magnets work great for this, and we got ours out of an old computer hard drive.\u00c2\u00a0 If you acquire one,\u00c2\u00a0 be particularly careful around children.\u00c2\u00a0 Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a warning from one site: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can damage computer gear & credit cards. Handle with care. 2 magnets can snap together with enough force to break a finger or shatter on impact.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If a child SWALLOWS one (or two) this can be VERY bad.\u00c2\u00a0 Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say like Emergency Surgery bad.<\/p>\nThe bag of powdered iron oxide did tell us to consult the <a href=\"http:\/\/msds.chemicalstore.com\/viewpage.asp?page_namespace=1&CatID=169\">MSDS<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 For those of you who have your own source of powdered iron (there are several good options) and decide that you will brave the hazards (this is sarcasm) of powdered iron, the gist of it is to not inhale huge plumes of the stuff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nCredit where credit is due:\u00c2\u00a0 We got this idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/magnetic-silly-putty\/\">Instructables<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nGIVEAWAY!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Want to make your Putty attractive to fine magnets everywhere? The first 5 commenters (Continental US only) on the Iron Man posts will get 2 TBSP of my Magnetite Powder. Because I still have nearly 5 pounds of the stuff. Just indicate that you are interested in receiving it, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll contact you via email.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re following along in our Iron Man series, you know that we still have most of the 5 pound bag of iron oxide powder (Fe3O4, or magnetite) we purchased off of Amazon.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that 5 pounds of iron oxide powder goes a long way. And it turns out that iron oxide powder &hellip <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/magneticsillyputty\/\">Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[16,44],"tags":[54,104,90,106,103,37,105,95,25,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertwind.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}