loadstone
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
loadstone (plural loadstones)
- Alternative form of lodestone
- 1818, Thomas Brown, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition, page 83:
- [M]agnetic action […] is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone.
Translations[edit]
lodestone — see lodestone