Water reacts to electric field and oxygen reacts to magnetic field, can some explain to me why and the difference between the two fields.

 

 

Lets start off with the fact that water (and essentially all other matter) reacts to a magnetic field if the field is powerful enough:

”Liquid water is affected by magnetic fields and such fields can assist its purification. Water is diamagnetic and may be levitated in very high magnetic fields (10 T, compare Earth's magnetic field 50 μT). Lower, but still powerful, magnetic fields (0.2 T) have been shown, in simulations, to increase the number of monomer water molecules but, rather surprisingly, they increase the tetrahedrality at the same time”

http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/magnetic_electric_effects.html#mag

Edited February 21, 20187 yr by koti

Hello Fred, this seems a reasonable question.

The difference is in the molecules, not the fields.

 

The guy in the first video said that "water molecules are polar".

What he meant was electrically polarised, because water molecules are bent.

 

I am not sure whether the flame deflection in the second video is due to oxygen or carbon dioxide molecules but both are straight and not electrically polarised.

However both have a magnetic moment, though the oxygen one is much stronger.

58 minutes ago, studiot said:

Hello Fred, this seems a reasonable question.

The difference is in the molecules, not the fields.

 

The guy in the first video said that "water molecules are polar".

What he meant was electrically polarised, because water molecules are bent.

 

I am not sure whether the flame deflection in the second video is due to oxygen or carbon dioxide molecules but both are straight and not electrically polarised.

However both have a magnetic moment, though the oxygen one is much stronger.

You are right on the mark but I got a few more questions, bear with me, what does this magnetic moment means? That it has an internal magnetic field? Why does oxygen has a magnetic moment?

8 minutes ago, fredreload said:

Why does oxygen has a magnetic moment?

Unpaired electrons in its outermost orbital.

13 hours ago, swansont said:

Unpaired electrons in its outermost orbital.

Cool, this post is meant for wind control prediction for flight safety by changing the flow of oxygen gas using a magnetic field