Subject:  MFs & oxyagen (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 5 May 1998 033015 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 10:18:30 -0700
From: Edward Maxey 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: MFs & oxyagen

Hello Roy,

Your recent emailings (re: oxygen disappearing from tanks in the
presence of high magnetic fields) concerns me.  It is true that oxygen
has magnetic qualities.  Howevcr, oxygen in a steel tank will not be
exposed to high magnetic fields outside that tank.  There is a simple
way to demonstrate this.

Required are:
1. an approximately 1/4" diameter 3" long steel pipe.
2. a similar pipe of brass.
3. a steel ball bearing which will roll freely through the pipes.
4. a fairly strong bar magnet.

To test whether or not  a magnetic field penetrates the steel pipe place
the ball bearing in the pipe.  Then use one hand to hold  an of the
magnet at a right angle against the middle of the pipe.  Place the thumb
of the other hand over one end of the pipe and the index finger over the
other end.  Rotate the hand so that first one end of the pipe is
uppermost and then the other. 

Now do the same thing with the brass pipe.  

One observes that the ball bearing will always fall to the lower end of
the steel pipe but will be caught mid pipe by the penetrating magnetic
field with the brass pipe.  Conclusion - magnetic fields do not
penetrate steel tanks.

Regards,

Ed



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