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A scrapyard magnet is a large magnet that attracts materials such as colbolt, iron, nickel. It can be turned on and off, and when you turn off the magnet it drops all the scrap, it is taken by truck or train car and then it goes to a recycling plant.as it moves it holds scrap and takes it to another pile.

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A scrapyard magnet is a large magnet that attracts materials such as cobalt, iron, nickel. It can be turned on and off, and when you turn off the magnet it drops all the scrap, it is taken by truck or train car and then it goes to a recycling plant.as it moves it holds scrap and takes it to another pile.

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