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From: "Dr. Stiffler"
Repeatedly here is what I have found. The beaker within the
center of the ring magnet, does not reach equilibrium with
ambient temperature (yet the magnet itself does). The beaker
that is one meter away from the other setup, does reach
equilibrium with ambient.
Can we assume that the temperature of the magnetized sample is
always less than ambient?
The implication would be that the magnet provides some extra
"structure", and structure is generally indicative an
anti-entropic ordering, so there is some energy withdrawn from
ambient which is tied up in the ordering itself ?
I say "extra" structure because liquid water has plenty of hidden
structure already, but there is debate on what that structure
consists of. Older textbooks used to say there is base-level
hidden sea of tetrahedrons - little pyramids with triangular
bases, formed when each water molecule connects to four others.
The hexagon doesn't show until phase change. That old notion is
likely incorrect, according to Martin Chaplin's fine web site on
water and he goes into great detail about macro-structures.
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/
Here is his page on electric and magnetic effects of water:
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/magnetic.html
As for the white precipitate, which could be calcium leached from
the beaker - this could be due to the extra "wetting" of a lower
surface tension in the magnetized water. Magnetic fields lower the
surface tensions of H2O by up to 8% according to Chaplin.
Jones
