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........I don't get it. What's illegal about magnets?
Also, I was hoping you were going to do something cool with the magnetic properties. Like rolling it down a path where it passes by other magnets that are fixiated to a stable point, but the magnetic properties cause them to push off each other, means the round one on the path is always rolling in a circle or something.
I mean it looks pretty, but I was hoping for a sciency showoff.
When these were popular there was a concern that a child might swallow them and they would attract each other through the walls of the intestines resulting in death. They were banned in 2014 and the ban was overturned in 2016.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Magnets/Buckyballs-and-Buckycubes/Buckyballs-and-Buckycubes-Recall-Frequently-Asked-Questions
https://consumerist.com/2016/11/23/court-overturns-federal-ban-on-potentially-dangerous-high-power-magnets/
Ya know.....when you said they were banned over concerns over not understanding how magnets worked, I thought you were going to say in the early 1800s or something.
Then you said 2014......then I got really sad.