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About a year ago I got the Idea that a gradiometer would be a good toy for me and started looking around the net to see how I might go about building one. Proton precession looked like the right path to my mind and I researched further.
So as I understand it you've got a coil either solenoid or toroid (toroid having many advantages) with a core made of a hydrogen dense material sutch as water or kerosene. Now I don't have to wind one to know a liquid core is gonna be a pain in the butt so before I've read to the end of the sentance I've gone through my head looking for solid hydrocarbons and come up with paraffin.
Sense the effect is dependant on the atomic nuclei itself, I can't see any reason one hyrocarbon shouldn't work as well as any other. But I can't seem to find anything online about a paraffin core PPM detector ever being tryed.
This is so obvious that people smarter than me must have reason for not doing it and I think this is just the group to straighten me out on this.
So please proceed, and thank you all for all the great information your sharing here.
So as I understand it you've got a coil either solenoid or toroid (toroid having many advantages) with a core made of a hydrogen dense material sutch as water or kerosene. Now I don't have to wind one to know a liquid core is gonna be a pain in the butt so before I've read to the end of the sentance I've gone through my head looking for solid hydrocarbons and come up with paraffin.
Sense the effect is dependant on the atomic nuclei itself, I can't see any reason one hyrocarbon shouldn't work as well as any other. But I can't seem to find anything online about a paraffin core PPM detector ever being tryed.
This is so obvious that people smarter than me must have reason for not doing it and I think this is just the group to straighten me out on this.
So please proceed, and thank you all for all the great information your sharing here.
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