What do you do with this big cryomagnet?I would pray to it.
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Shlvng,
Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:43,
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I measure the magnetic properties of new compounds.We've got the only one in Switzerland that regularly is used for chemistry (apart from the one at the EPFL). It means I collaborate like a Frenchman.
It's basically a generator. You have a coil and you move a sample in it, thus it generates an electric current. Except it uses superconductors everywhere and (in some models) can detect as few as ten atoms changing their state at a time.
But, for all of this, it's just two large boxes in my lab with a computer on it...
(It's basically a generator. You have a coil and you move a sample in it, thus it generates an electric current. Except it uses superconductors everywhere and (in some models) can detect as few as ten atoms changing their state at a time.
But, for all of this, it's just two large boxes in my lab with a computer on it...
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:48,
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YAY! You win today's award forThe Most Interesting But Totally Unfathomable Job.
( Shlvng,
Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:56,
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I don't understand it either.But I don't tell them that...
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 21 Mar 2009, 19:10,
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