Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 1996/11

From: Ed Browning <EBrowning@-----.com>
Subj: molecular alignment
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:27:20 -0500

This has very little to do with the clarinet but I have to tell someone.
There is a metallugical processs that makes "amorphous " steel. Metal is
heated to a very high temperature, then subjected to a magnetic field. The
molecules are (truly) alligned . The steel is guickly quenched. The resulting
amorphous steel has remarkably reduced (electrical) resisitance. Research is
under way to make extremly efficient transformers and conductors of this
material.
Ed
Browning