Back in my college days (pre-historic past almost) we studied magnetism,
magnets and magnet composition. As I recall the stongest magnets were
alloys, and at the time the AlNiCo magnets were the strongest known. And
they were strong. Once set you could hardly budge them.

AlNiCo is Aluminum, Nickel, and Cobalt. Don't remember what else was in
them.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

>In a message dated 3/28/03 12:53:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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>ok..ill bite..what the hell is the diff between a "rare earth magnet" (sounds
>like something you would pick up at a phish concert or a Dead shop) and a
>regular magnet?
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>chris
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