You are provided with two similar bars. One is magnet and the other is a soft iron. How will you distinguish between them without the use of any other magnet or bar ?

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Given two materials, let us suspend them freely from a vertical pole and observe it carefully when they come to rest. A magnet when suspended freely will rest only in the north-south direction according to the earth's magnetic field, but the soft iron bar will rest In any direction. This is the simple experiment to identify a magnet from other metals.

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