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From: chardros@csli.Stanford.EDU (Doug Gibson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Trying to build a fluxgate magnetometer -- help!
Keywords: proton free-precession magnetometer
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Date: 8 Oct 89 00:13:11 GMT
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In article <22842@sequent.UUCP> rjk@sequent.UUCP (Robert Kelley) writes:
>It might be interesting to build a more modern version of the system described
>in the article.  Another installation of _The_Amateur_Scientist_ describes another
>NMR setup and suggests adding ferric nitrate to the water.  Why?


In the NMR lab given in undergrad p-chem here, we added a decent amount
(millimolar, I think) of some ferric salt to water.... and all of a sudden, the
water peak was about 1000 Hz wide.

I suspect there's a connection.

-Doug Gibson
 chardros@csli.stanford.edu

"He's dead, Jim.  You grab his tricorder, and I'll take his wallet."