Also try holding one magnet pole near each side of the bottle. You can improve your bottle by removing all labels and painting one side of the bottle with white spray paint. This gives you a smooth white background against which to view the floating dark fibers. Help Support the Science Club , use the above form to order books. Earth's poles are deep.
Electric fields exist around any object having an imbalance of electric charge.
Rub a balloon on your arm and then use the balloon to make your arm hair stand on end. When you do this, the imbalanced charge remains on your hairs and on the balloon surface. And while iron and steel can be used to make a Magnetic Field Viewing Bottle, you can use hair to make an Electric Field Viewing Bottle. Straight black hair works best. If you don't want to cut chunks out of your hairdo, you can also use the artificial hair from a halloween mask, from an old doll, etc.