I was researching a topic and found an interesting comment from the
researches of Dr. John Moreland;
"Where do I think the increased power of the new super-magnets come
from? I will give you three guesses and the first two do not count.
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS! I will show the naturally occurring isotopes of
some of the materials used to make these super magnets.
Here we have Cesium. It has only one isotope which accounts for 11.07%
of the naturally occurring material. We also see that it is an
alpha-emitter with an energy of 1.5 Mev.
Here we have Neodymium, which has only one isotope that accounts for
23.85% of the naturally occurring material. The alpha particle emitted
has an energy of 1.8 Mev.
Here we have Samarium which has three isotopes which account for a total
of 40.04% of the naturally occurring material. The energies of the
alpha particles emitted are 2.24, 2.14 and 1.84 Mev.
It is evident that as the percentage and energy of the alpha particles
increase, so does the power of the magnetic material produced when
incorporating this material into magnets.
Another interesting property of these magnets is that once the material
is compressed in the mold and before it is energized to make it
magnetic, a Geiger counter will register activity from the radioactive
material.
However, once the material is energized and becomes a magnet, absolutely
no radiation can be detected.
My theory is that the energy of the alpha particle is being converted to
magnetic energy and thus increasing the magnetic power of the magnet as
the percentage of radioactive material and or the energy of the alpha
particle is increased.
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What an interesting claim...conversion of alpha emissions to magnetic
flux. The address to make contact with and/or buy Dr. Morelands books
which was www.aztecpub.com but the website is no longer valid.
The phone number listed is 615.888.3428 and the last known address was
Aztec Publishing, 1251 Smith Thompson Road, Bethpage, TN 37022, they
have a list of books by Dr. John Moreland and Dr. Paul Brown.
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