Magnetic Experiment Confirmed!

[PaulLowrance]

and here are some more measurements,

Common white paper that is soaked with water: 0.75 volts

Wax paper: 0.52 volts

Wax paper, flipped (in case it's only sided wax paper): 0.52 volts


and next will be a piece of transparent plastic, relatively thick.


It's a guarantee the soaked wet paper will produce a lot of electrochemical reactions, but if this is electrochemical then I would have expected the wax paper to produce hardly no voltage. For example, I have some extremely dead 1.5V Alkaline batteries that produce a few milli volts.

[Magluvin]

Or maybe stacked with washers in between, due to the mag being coated all the way around with nickle, etc. to allow charges to be separate from pole to pole.  washer, paper, magnet, paper, washer, magnet, etc.

Magluvin

[Magluvin]

If this were true, I could imagine a continuous current flow through the nickle plating of neos. I wonder if their ambient temp is greater than their surroundings.
Mags

[PaulLowrance]

That is good test, Magluvin. What's interesting about diodes & piezos is that regardless of how many are placed in parallel, they still produce 10pA. Well, that is, when the diode or piezos have stabilized. Initially they seem to store charge, far more than their capacitance, so after that's been discharged, they will settle down near 10 pA.

Maybe the magnet experiments will be the same, after being shorted long enough, they will produce 10pA.

Paul

[PaulLowrance]

With transparent plastic, relatively thick, the voltage was 0.36 volts.

BTW, all of these recent measurements were done with an electrometer.

I think the soaked wet white paper was mostly electrochemical reactions. The wax paper had some electrochemical reactions. And I'd expect no measurable reactions in the plastic. So where is this 0.36 volts coming from? Maybe from metal to metal reactions??? BTW, the metal & plastic was cleaned.

Paul