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To: Anthony Zack who wrote (6787)	7/18/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14226

Anthony, I would like to see reproducibility as well, but hiding errors in analytical chemistry with "black magic" of "monoatomic species that are superconducting and thus tunneling away" is not going to do it. Superconductivity is a "cooprative" process and involves only the electrons of the various species, not the atoms per se. Assuming that indeed there are small "clusters" that are superconducting at ambient temperature, they surely will no longer be superconducting at the temperatures (above 1000 C) where fluxing and melting of the ores occur (in an SFA) prior to the subsequent collection of the goodies in a collector. Unless you have found a way to violate Maxwells equations, a magnetic field will always decrease with at least the second power of the distance from the magnetic source, and since superconducting species will tend to exclude as many flux lines as possible, such particles (if they indeed existed) will run to areas of minimum magnetic fields (typically at infinity), provided that they are no "locked in" the ore matrix, and if they are, then the whole argument of depletion through tunneling is hogwash). Unfortunately the force on such superconducting particles is the product of the field and its gradient, thus as the field decreases, there is very little driving force left to do the job. If indeed such superconducting particles were present and they contained the goodies, magnetic separation devices could very easily do the job. Such devices are manufactured to separate diamagnetic alloys such as aluminum cans from paramagnetic and ferromagnetic alloys such as steel cans by Walker Magnetics. A superconductor is nothing but a very diamagnetic material (see some of my patents on diamagnetic colloids). Zeev