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If you're lucky, you would only blow a fuse or trip a circuit breaker. You might receive a shock or be electrocuted. Batteries supply direct current (DC). Household sockets supply alternating current (AC). Even if it were safe to do so, which it is not, plugging the magnet into AC would not give the desired effect. The north and south magnetic poles would change places with each other at a rate of 60 times per second or 60 Hz. Thus there would be no net magnetic field produced.

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