How to distinguish cast iron vs wrought iron vs pure iron at home without analyzing the components? Pure iron is silvery-white, right? What happens in the magnet+paper clip experiment, which one remains
![Something stupid I did: my brother got a strong magnet for Christmas so I stuck it to my skillet and can't get it off. : r/castiron Something stupid I did: my brother got a strong magnet for Christmas so I stuck it to my skillet and can't get it off. : r/castiron](https://i.redd.it/rmf0hsg3fed41.jpg)
Something stupid I did: my brother got a strong magnet for Christmas so I stuck it to my skillet and can't get it off. : r/castiron
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