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
A current may be sent over a very long wire, and it will deflect a magnetic needle at the other end.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
But still there survives within the American breast a popular sentiment, which, like the magnetic needle, ever points to an unerring polar star.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
