Question

give detailed information about how the merchant of olden times used a magnet while travelling​

Answer 1

they used it for traveling frm one place to another by using it as a compass ...the freely suspended magnet always pointed towards north-South direction, which helped them to locate direction...

Answer 2

they use it for finding directions as whenever we suspend a magnet freely it comes to first in North south directions

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