Magnet fishing

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

5

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Magnet fishing, also called magnetic fishing, is searching in outdoor waters for ferromagnetic objects available to pull with a strong neodymium magnet.

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Image: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.