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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio,sci.astro,sci.space
Subject: Re: Trying to build a fluxgate magnetometer -- help!
Keywords: MKS cgs flames
Message-ID: <1221@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 89 20:27:48 GMT
References: <1914@sactoh0.UUCP> <28601@buckaroo.mips.COM> <1989Oct29.174631.12960@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1989Oct29.174631.12960@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>>>
>>>I would like to measure changes at least as small as
>>>10 gammas (.001 Gauss), and if possible, even smaller.
>>>
>>
>>?  You mean of course, nanotesla (nT), since 1954.  :-)
>
>I have been in the science business for over 20 years and have
>never heard anyone refer to magnetic fields in Tesla - everyone
>uses gauss.

I use Tesla (or, rather, nanoTesla) all the time.  But I have only
been in the science business for 17 years so I had a chance to
learn the SI system properly ... :-> 

Bo

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