Re: Effects of magnetic water on plants?


"Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Alan Holmes wrote:
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>> "Nick Maclaren" <nmm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>In article <RZVyf.2396$0N1.881@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>Alan Holmes <alan.holmes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>>I didn't know you could magnetise water!
>>>
>>>You can magnetise pretty well anything at 10 tesla.
>>
>> What is a tesla, does it hurt?
>
> Only if you are wearing a mild steel belt buckle (or anything else
> ferromagnetic). Really high power magnets are surrounded by warnings.
>
> Telsa was a Russian guy heavily into arcs and sparks - and ultimately
> responsible for the adoption of AC mains power distribution (Edison wanted
> DC). He also gave his name to the SI unit of magnetic field strength.
>
> The best neodymium rare earth alloy magnets these days are of order 1T. I
> doubt very much if the scam artists are selling are selling anything like
> top grade ones. Copper magnetic jewellry works by a powerful placebo
> effect - the more you have paid for it the more effective you will find it
> to be. The following is a reasonably fun toy science magnet site.
>
> http://www.dansdata.com/magnets.htm
>
> High end superconducting magnets used for NMR imaging are around 1-2T and
> analysis now can be made up to 20T or so. They affect the spins of atomic
> nuclei rather than the puny electrons responsible for chemistry. The world
> record synthetic magnetic field is about one order of magnitude higher
> still.
>
> If unshielded they wipe bank cards in the blink of an eye.
>
> Regards,
> Martin Brown

That's why The Chemists look at the puny electrons by ESR ;-)
Big ain't always beautiful


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