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Flinders bar

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Definition of Flinders bar 

: a soft-iron bar or bundle of soft-iron rods placed vertically near a ship's compass to counteract deviation due to magnetic induction from the earth in surrounding vertical ironwork

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History and Etymology for Flinders bar

after Matthew Flinders †1814 English mariner

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