At 10:50 AM 5/23/2002 -0400, Andrew Kolbert wrote:
>I have heard that some years ago at the University of Illinois, they had
>a video camera pointed at the magnet overnight, which caught a janitor
>quenching a magnet by testing the field strength with a metal stool.
>You might try tracking this down through Eric Oldfield in Chemistry.
I think I have a "photo" (what word do we use these days?) from UIUC of a
partially quenched horizontal magnet holding onto a gas cylinder and cart.
It's at
http://opie.nmr.siu.edu/quench.html
Bill
William C. Stevens, Ph.D. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
Director Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4405
618-453-6498 voice
618-453-6408 fax wstevens_at_siu.edu
http://opie.nmr.siu.edu
Received on Thu May 23 2002 - 17:43:29 MST