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Project Description:
PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Here are the latest pictures of my magnetolysis setup.

The coil is wrapped around a ~15 ml glass laboratory grade test tube ~4 inches long.
Starting 0.5 inches from the bottom the tube was wrapped with magnet wire (?AWG: bought from radio shack years ago, no label) for the length of about 2 inches with three layers thick.  Resistance was measured at 5.5 ohms when filled with supersaturated NaOH.

Current was applied off the mains 120V 60Hz through a light dimmer switch (Leviton: Local hardware store).  Ground wire is connected to a steel pole that runs literally into the ground outside my work shed.  Positive wire is connected to a 1 Ohm resistor (CP-10 MEX 0724, 10% tolerance DALE 10Watt: From Radio Shack) before going to coil setup.  Negative wire runs to other end of coil.

Experiment 1

Test tube filled with distilled water to about 12ml.  Current applied by turning on dimmer switch around about a quarter turn until the AC voltage reading on the meter jumps from 0 to about 24 volts.  The dimmer is then slowly backed down to about 5 volts.  I have no way of knowing what the current draw is thru the coil as my meter does not have that option.
  
[Note: I bought another meter with an external clamp to measure AC current, but can not seem to figure out how to measure AC current with this new meter.  Always get 0 current even when clamping live wires]

In this setup at 5 volts AC, I begin to see bubbles appear in about 75 seconds at a temperature reading of 100 degrees cel.  Bubbles continue to flow even when current is turned off until temp drops below 100 degrees C.  Conclusion:  I am boiling water with this coil under these conditions.

Experiment 2

Test tube filled with supersaturated NaOH to about 12ml.  Current applied by turning on dimmer switch around about a quarter turn until the AC voltage reading on the meter jumps from 0 to about 24 volts.  The dimmer is then slowly backed down to about 5 volts.  

In this setup at 5 volts AC, I begin to see bubbles appear in about 150 seconds at a temperature reading of ~100 degrees C.  Bubbles continue to flow even when current is turned off until temp drops below 100 degrees C.  Conclusion:  I am boiling water/NaOH with this coil under these conditions.

Experiment 3
Same conditions as Experiment 2, except that a small piece of PVC pipe is cut off a 4 inch diameter thin walled piece of PVC sewer pipe (Lowes).  Length of PVC stick is ~0.25 inch wide and 5 inches in length.  When placed into coil filled with NaOH resistance drops to 3.1 ohms.

In this setup at 5 volts AC, I first saw bubbles appear in about 100 seconds at a temperature reading of ~76 degrees C.  Bubbles stopped when current was turned off.  If current was applied until temp reached 100 degrees C, bubbles increased dramatically even when current was cut off until temp dropped below 100 degrees C.  Conclusion:  In the presence of PVC in supersaturated NaOH solution there was some sort of induction coil induced reaction (hydrogen gas???) at about 76 degree C., which is below the melting point of PVC (80 degree C) and below the boiling point of water 100 degree C under these conditions.

HOWEVER, when I left the PVC in the NaOH solution in coil overnight (no current) and tried to replicate the experiment this morning before work, I only got bubbles at 100 degree C.  I have no idea why…  I plan to start with new materials tonight to see if I can replicate.

Other observations noted:

1) When a compass is placed next to the coil, the compass moves slightly toward the coil only immediately when the dimmer is turned on and off even when there is no AC current reading on the meter.

2)  When coil was placed into rubber coated metal test tube holder, the corner of the holder became magnetized after turning on the system.  All experiments above were conduced in a new set-up with coil in plastic container.

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This Website is Created and Maintained by chris--at--OUPower--dot--com (Fix the address for it to work!)
This Project was last updated on: January 5, 2009 01:40pm v7.01

WARNING! Many, if not all of the projects described within these pages, contain dangerous and potentially fatal consequences if you do not exercise proper precautions and follow standard safety procedures. The owner of this site takes no responsibility for injury sustained by anyone attempting to duplicate or utilize any of the information on this site. The information here is strictly for Educational Purposes! -USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

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