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From: rob@wiley.UUCP (Robert Heiss)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Sound Amplification by Combustion
Keywords: singing flames
Message-ID: <5557@wiley.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 89 00:39:44 GMT
References: <11652@cit-vax.caltech.edu> <1625@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <3344@kitty.uucp> 
Reply-To: rob@wiley.UUCP (Robert Heiss)
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In article  michael@xanadu.UUCP (Michael McClary) writes:
>Want it really loud?  Add a permanent magnet with the field at right
>angles to the gap between the electrodes.  This makes an MHD motor
>that accellerates the gas at right angles to the current and the
>magnetic field.  Flat response from DC to low radio frequencies if
>you do it right.  (Too much combustion product to use to pressurize
>your house, though.  B-) )

Did the setup without the permanent magnet depend on the earth's magnetic
field in order to make sound?

	Robert Heiss    uunet!wiley!rob