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From: johns@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (John Sahr)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio,sci.astro,sci.space
Subject: Re: Trying to build a fluxgate magnetometer -- help!
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Date: 2 Oct 89 14:53:54 GMT
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In article <28601@buckaroo.mips.COM> vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes:
>In article <1914@sactoh0.UUCP> mahaun@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Haun) 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.  :-)

Well, I don't know about the "official" state of "gamma" vs "nT", but
both are in common usage in "the business."  For earth-based mags, the
_only_ unit I have heard used is "gamma".

How many of you circuit dweebs use the "right" term for inverse ohms?
I thought so.

(yearning for the days of furlongs per fortnight :*)

-- 
John Sahr,     Dept. of Electrical Eng., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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