It is this one: The biggest, heaviest and of course by far the strongest magnet in our shop. With 400 kg adhesive force, the fishing magnet 400 is so strong, that even for us, looking at it sends shivers down our spine! It certainly is not a suitable magnet for beginners. Using the strongest materials known to man, scientists are building the most powerful electromagnet in the world — one that won't blow up a split second after it's turned on. The entire magnet.
The largest magnet on Earth is, in fact, the Earth. Our planet acts like one big bar magnet, with a magnetic north and south pole. However, it is not the strongest one on the planet. The most powerful, non-destructive magnet resides in New Mexico and was made by humans. In 2012, researchers at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico built one that could generate a record-setting magnetic field of 100 Tesla, a unit used to measure magnetic field strength.
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To put that in perspective, the huge lifting magnets that swing cars around like they are mere toys are only around 2 tesla. The magnet created by the researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico clocks in at 100 Tesla━a magnetic force that is 2 million times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field. The magnetic energy is so intense that it even emits a shrieking sound when turned on. Because it is so powerful though, it can only be turned on for a few seconds, then it must be turned off.
The current strongest magnet in the world took over two and a half years to build, and over $3.5 million. What is the strongest magnet? The strongest magnet in the world is currently a man made pulse magnet, which is a type of electromagnet, at the University of Tokyo. Researchers were able to produce a magnetic field that reached 1,200 teslas. The strongest permanent magnets in the world are neodymium (Nd) magnets, they are made from magnetic material made from an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron to form the Nd 2 Fe 14 B structure. Neodymium magnets are considered part of the family of rare earth magnets because their main element is the rare earth element, neodymium. To clarify the power of the world's strongest magnet, a strong refrigerator magnet is 100 gauss. In one tesla-unit there is 10.000 gauss. This means, that the power is stronger than the combined power of more than 4000 strong refrigerator magnets.
The magnet isn’t necessarily the strongest that has ever been created either. However, it is the first that does not involve destruction or explosions in the process. With magnetic fields that strong, even the magnet needs help managing the strength of them. Before, powerful man-made magnetic fields were generated by using some form of explosives to compress the field inside the magnet as it pulsed. Using this method, researchers could reach measurements as high as 1,000 Tesla, but only for a few microseconds. With the 100 Tesla magnet, researchers can use it again and again.
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So what’s the point of creating a super powerful magnet besides the fact that it sounds really cool? The man-made magnet is actually a valuable resource in furthering research on superconductors, quantum behaviors and a number of other magnetic phenomenon.