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Question
Give scientific reason:
Two steel needles hanging from the lower end of a vertical bar magnet do not hang vertically.

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Solution
Two steel needles hanging from the lower end of the vertical bar magnet do not hang vertical but will diverge because they got the like poles on it and like poles repel each other so they diverge.
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