magnetic needle
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Finding the magnetoreceptors responsible for triggering these neurons has been like looking for a magnetic needle in a haystack.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 23, 2016
Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a warrior's spear.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said: "Nothing must deflect the magnetic needle."
From Time Magazine Archive
The mirror was made of silvered microscopic glass about � in. in diameter, and the magnetic needle or needles consisted of short fragments of watchspring cemented to its back.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Saddle Island, magnetic, needle much affected, scenery, whales, kelp-fish, 199.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
