{"id":742,"date":"2022-04-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:57:17","slug":"6-household-items-using-magnets-you-didnt-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/6-household-items-using-magnets-you-didnt-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Household Items Using Magnets You Didn\u2019t Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Magnets can be found in every household\u2026 even yours! Several items around your home will be using many types of magnets some in plain sight some completely hidden without you even knowing. The magnets may be permanently magnetic or powered by electricity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help you realise how important magnets are in your day-to-day life we\u2019ve put together a list of six things in your house using magnets you didn\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speakers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Any speaker around your home contains a stationary magnet from earphones to Bluetooth speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These stationary magnets are in a metal frame, a paper diaphragm and a wire coil moulded into the diaphragm\u2019s centre. An electric current flowing through this coil will cause the magnetic forces between the coil and magnet to make the diaphragm vibrate in and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This vibration produces the music you hear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cupboard Doors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Many cupboards and closet doors will have a magnetic closing. Created using either one magnet and steel or two magnets, a magnetic latch has enough force to keep doors securely shut but also can still be opened with ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most common magnetic door is the magnetic refrigerator door<\/a> seal found on almost every fridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kids Toys<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Several children\u2019s toys use magnets in them including our child-friendly wall pack <\/a>and our educational chalkboards<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magnets play a key part in each of these toys but parents should be aware and check that all magnetic toys are suitable and safe for their child\u2019s age range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to browse our entire range of magnetic kids’ toys here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Debit and Credit Cards<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Each bank or credit card in your wallet will have its own magnet. A dark magnetic strip that contains data codes including the account number and your name can be found on the back of your card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This strip allows the data codes to be converted into readable words and numbers when you swipe your card while shopping. It\u2019s important to know that these strips have relatively weak magnetism, so any contact with very strong magnets<\/a> can damage or erase the data on the strips.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Motorized Appliances<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Any household item using a motor such as a hoover, blender, or even your coffee machine will be using magnets. Inside each product’s motor, wire coils will produce repelling forces when an electric current flows through forcing the motor to spin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike magnets used on your fridge or cupboard doors, these magnetic coils will have no magnetism when the device is turned off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Computers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Magnets are most commonly used to store data on hard drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magnets alter the direction of magnetic material on a hard disk to represent computer data, computers then read the direction of each segment to \u2018read\u2019 the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as the hard drive the speakers of a computer will use magnets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Shop All Magnetic Materials:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Neodymium<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buy Neodymium Magnets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Buy Ceramic Magnets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Samarium<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buy Samarium Magnets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Buy Alnico Magnets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Buy Flexible Magnets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magnets can be found in every household\u2026 even yours! Several items around your home will be using many types of magnets some in plain sight some completely hidden without you even knowing. The magnets may be permanently magnetic or powered by electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[113,114,165,166,7,167,168,169,123,125],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magnet-information","category-magnets-for-the-home","tag-are-magnets","tag-do-magnets","tag-household-objects-that-use-magnets","tag-magnet-appliances","tag-magnets","tag-magnets-in-the-house","tag-magnets-around-the-home","tag-magnets-in-the-home","tag-should-magnets","tag-will-magnets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first4magnets.com\/us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}