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Subject:Re: Magnets
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:26:16 -0500

Sure makes my magtet look cheezy.

http://blackhead.netfirms.com/magnet.jpg

Picture of the big magnet, just in case you were wondering.

Stan Wilder

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:13:03 -0700 Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
writes:
> I use a 500MHz magnet on occasion. It works wonders. I'd recommend it
> to
> everybody! Just this morning i used it to determine the structure of
> a
> simple molecule- and it took just minutes until i had success!
> Known as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance... also know as Magnetic
> Resonance
> Imaging... aka MRI.  These magnets are liquid helium cooled (4K, or
> -269C)
> and cost about half a mil.
> Matthew
> with success with magnets!
>
> Matthew Pollard          "Racing with the wind and flirting with
> death
> Dept. Of Chemistry        So have a cup of coffee and catch your
> breath"
> University of Idaho
> www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
>
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Mick Kalber wrote:
>
> > >Those and other versions of magnets are being marketed to people
> to use as bed mattresses, shoe inserts, therapeutic devices etc etc
> etc.<
> >
> > I have personally used strong magnets on sports injuries with
> terrific results... speeds the healing process... can take away pain
> immediately.  Can't speak to the other issues, but for that specific
> purpose they sure convinced me.  Snake oil to some maybe...
> wonderfully effective for me.
> >
> > Mick
> > Hilo, Hawaii
> >

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