----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:36
PM
Subject: Re: Gauss readings of soil
Hi James and Barbara!
Thanks for all of your good work.....
For those of us still wishing to learn some of the technical lingo -- could
you explain Gauss? Thanks!
Wayne
Hi Wayne
I will leave the technical explanation to James but in the meantime
if you want to do some testing yourself here's how
1. get a sample (or a couple of different ones) of paramagneteic rock dust
of known gauss and keep for reference, I keep mine in a normal paper envelope.
2. now you need a small (1/2" diameter or smaller) but high
quality - strong - magnet - your ordinary fridge magnet type is not good
enough - and suspend the magnet on a piece of cotton about a foot or so
long.
3. the magnet will stick to your envelope of paramagnetic material and by
moving the cotton away so that you have just enough tension on the cotton to
equal the weight of the magnet you find the magnet comes away from the sample
at a certain angle depending on the paramagnetic value or strength of the
material tested. The reverse of this of course is that a diamagnetic material
(lime for instance) should repel the magnet
Its a fun thing - but a good enough system to tell if a rock source is
worthy of serious testing - good enough that I was not all that surprised by
the reading we got on James's soil and a 1200 reading is regarded as real good
for soil DO NOT GET THIS LITTLE MAGNET ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR
HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES OR YOU WILL NUKE THEM
Have fun
Lloyd Charles
