Synopsis
Knowles and McCork ask 'How does a compass work?'
- Programme: Brain Freeze
- Series: 2
- Episode: 9: Compass
- Channel: CBBC
- Broadcast year: 2016
- Science | Forces and magnets | Describe magnets as having two poles
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