You're in a room with 2 iron bars

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You're in a room with 2 iron bars. One is a magnet and the other is not.
How do you tell which one is the magnet? You have nothing but the iron bars to test this.
 
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Balance one across the other, like a +. If the magnetic one is on top it will prefer to point in a specific direction.
 
Form a T shape. The behavior of the magnet near the poles should be different from the behavior near the middle of the bar.
 
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