Just as a possible point of interest, you can freeze or cool a magnet
to increase its strength. If you think about it, makes sense because
heating to and beyond the Curie point will cause it to lose magnetic
flux lines.
I hate to say this and I couldn't find the document with the relevant
quote, but Keely said you could increase the power of a magnet by
suspending a weight from it and every day increasing that weight a
bit. Much like exercising a muscle to increase strength. To my
knowledge this hasn't been tested and it seems simple enough to do.
Also, as an aside, not magnetic but an observation nonetheless, a lady
friend says a crystal caused her icebox to get colder when the crystal
was put into it.
The crystal had many little points on the face of it. When she tried
it with a crystal with just a few points, it didn't get any colder,
but with all the tiny points the thing durn near froze up.
---Feberrus@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-08-06 01:05:46 EDT, you write:
>
> << Your comment regarding contemporary magnets being too powerful made
> and it seems it may be rather difficult to acquire suitable
> weaker ones. >>
> the nature of the physical univese (macroscopicaly) is entropic
making weak
> magnets is no biggy heat a magnet or apply lots of physical force
(hit it)
> disrupts the alignment of the atoms and weakens the field the
effects are
> sometimes temporary so the longer you apply heat the longer it will
be weak.
> just make sure not to over do it
>
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