X-Message-Number: 25462 From: "leo" <> Subject: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Freezing is not Adiabatic Demagnetisation Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:33:58 +0200 In the last weeks people on Cryonet seems to mistaken MRF whit Adiabatic Demagnetisation, I think its something else, its seems to work like this, They use a normal freezer with a build in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment, something similar as a Magnetic Resonance Imaging system, its seems to be that this nuclear resonance gets water to supercool to -40 Celsius, and prevents crystallisation or keeps the crystals small, So the freezing is done in a normal way, the effect of supercooling is coursed by the resonance of the proton in the hydrogen atom of water, I found a patent on a Japanese site, but its not possible to make a direct link, but you can do it like this, go to this site, http://www19.ipdl.ncipi.go.jp/PA1/cgi-bin/PA1SEARCH Fill in the three words; nuclear magnetic freezing Then hit search on the bottom of the page. Then on the next page hit index indication on the top of the page. Then hit the number 1 search result. For more information hit the detail button on top of the page. Leo. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25462