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Letter: Letters : Correction

Published 7 June 1997

Correction: The story about the world’s most powerful magnet with a
13.5-tesla field (In Brief, 10 May, p 16),
should have made it clear that this was for a dipole magnet as opposed to
a solenoid magnet. It is more difficult to generate a strong field in a dipole
magnet because the high magnetic field is oriented so that it actually tries
to rip the magnet apart.

Issue no. 2085 published 7 June 1997

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