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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.sex
- Subject: Re: Tomorrow's World, odd magnetic behaviour
- Message-ID: <qJNTTB15w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 14:31:49 GMT
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- In uk.misc gdg019@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov5.103353.17065@infodev.cam.ac.uk> grlw1@phx.cam.ac.uk writ
- > >Last night on this program they had a feature on a new compound called
- > >turfenol or terfenol (they didn't give the spelling), which changed
- > >length when a magnetic filed was put across it. They also showed it
- > >being used to conrol a compressed-air valve with great precision. Does
- > >anyone know anything about it? Papers, sources, people making things with it
- > >Cheers in advance
- > >Rich!
- >
- > Just think... If you made condoms out of this stuff, and a woman was wearing
- > an IUD coil at the same time, the thing might contract and sever your
- > penis...
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