World-Record Magnet to Pull in Scientific Breakthroughs
Date: Monday, July 25, 2005 @ 21:25:42 UTC
Topic: Devices
Newswise — Members of the news media are invited to attend a special event marking a major technological leap forward for the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
On Thursday, July 28, at 9:30 a.m., the laboratory will host a commissioning ceremony to bring online a new, world-record magnet that is expected to yield important discoveries in the fields of chemical and biomedical research...
The superconducting magnet, which stands 16 feet tall and weighs more than 15 tons, was no overnight accomplishment...
At full strength, the magnet has a magnetic field of 21 teslas — teslas being a scientific measure of magnetic field intensity. By comparison, the Earth’s magnetic field is about 0.00005 teslas.
What makes this magnet particularly useful for scientific research, however, is its bore size — 105 mm, or just over 4 inches. The bore is the space within the magnet that holds the sample being tested. The larger the bore size, the larger the sample — and the greater the range of scientific experiments that can be conducted...
Source: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/513300/?sc=swhn
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