Title :
Impact of magnetization field/torsion field on the formation of hexagonal water crystal
Author :
Hsu, Yi-Chu ; Quoc, Linh Ve
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Southern Taiwan Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
In this paper, the morphology growth of hexagonal water crystal under effect of magnetization field and "torsion field" was investigated. In order to conduct the experiment, we use permanent magnets having their own "torsion field" according to the study of A. I. Veineik [1] to consider how the proportion and the shape of hexagonal water crystal appear with different strength of magnetic field divided into three ranges: under 1500 gausses, from 1500 gausses to 3000 gausses, and over 3000 gausses. The experimental results revealed a remarkable difference between treatment water and no treatment one. The higher proportion of hexagonal water crystal happened in water samples treated with "torsion field", from 1 to 4 successful samples in 30 samples. Otherwise, This difference also occurs in the three-range of magnetic field strength which was under 1500 gausses, from 1500 to 3000 gausses and over 3000 gausses, respectively. Moreover, in the range of over 3000 gausses, we conducted the experiments with different treatment time with "torsion field" to investigate the appearance rate of hexagonal water crystal according to the change of time in 12 hours, 24 hours and 48 hours, respectively. Under observation, when the strength of magnetic field was under 1500 gausses, the hexagonal water crystal was not perfect. Conversely, these hexagonal water crystals in the range of from 1500 to 3000 gausses were more perfect and complicated than those in the smaller range. For the rest part of the range, the proportion of hexagonal water crystal decreased or seldom appeared with different time of "torsion field" treatment. These empirical results proved that the "torsion field" of permanent magnets effect to the hexagonal water crystal formation.
Keywords :
crystal growth; crystallisation; magnetic field effects; magnetisation; permanent magnets; water; crystallization; hexagonal water crystal formation; magnetic field strength; magnetic flux density 1500 gauss to 3000 gauss; magnetization field; permanent magnets; time 12 h to 48 h; torsion field; treatment water; Crystals; Ice; Magnetic fields; Microscopy; Permanent magnets; Shape; Water; crystal morphology; hexagonal water crystal; torsion field; water crystal;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-771-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMT.2011.6002399