Magnetism and photographic imagery

[cliveh]

Yes it has been interesting, and I could go on about how you can influence the magnetic characteristics of stainless steel, but it has absolutely nothing to do with making prints.

Why should it be about making prints?

[Photo Engineer]

So are we saying ferric ammonium oxalate has no magnetic properties?

I have a suggestion.

Go out and buy the biggest and strongest magnet you can and then try to drag some Ferric or Ferrous salt out of solution with it. If you do, then patent it and write it up for your Nobel Prize.



PE

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Curses. I was expecting something novel from this thread.

[jnanian]

the heck with a rare earth or electro magnet
throw an electric charge through the cyanotype
while you print it and its subject and see if you can get a cyanokirilian print

[Worker 11811]

What about a strong, alternating magnetic field such as that which might be generated by a rotating drum with magnets fixed to its surface in alternate N-S-N-S fashion?

You can use this technique to REPEL copper, aluminum and other non-ferromagnetic metals. It's the eddy currents which cause the repulsion.
This is how trash recycling machines separate ferromagnetic metals, non-ferromagnetic metals and paper/plastic/trash. First, they use a magnet to suck up the steel and iron. Then they use a rotating drum magnet to repel the copper, aluminum, etc. into a chute.

Would this technique work in our case?

[tkamiya]

Not even a little bit and even with salt, pepper, oregano and basil! NOT MAGNETIC!

PE

But if you add some imported Parmesan Cheese, viola! It sticks to a magnet!

[Photo Engineer]

NO Tk. I tried it with a vintage Parmegiano Reggiano and it did not work! Sorry.

I am working on a Molle to see if it will work!

PE

[Gerald C Koch]

It is important not to confuse atoms with ions. Their magnetic properties are very different.

There are three types of magnetic susceptability; paramagnetism, diamagnetism, and ferromagnetism. The first two are extremely small and need special equipment to be measured. Most materials exhibit either paramagnetism or diamagnetism. A very few substances like iron exhibit ferromagnetism.

[E. von Hoegh]

Not even a little bit and even with salt, pepper, oregano and basil! NOT MAGNETIC!

Some Stainless Steel is non-magnetic as well and it is basically iron!

PE

Nickel is magnetic, and nickel isn't iron.

[holmburgers]

Can light or radiation have an effect on ferromagnetism, to a degree that it could be utilized in some fashion to make an image? I'm kind of thinking along the lines of Xerox; where a charged plate of selenium loses that charge with light exposure. Any kind of similar phenomenon we can exploit with magnetism?