Lenard spiral
Lenard spiral
[′lā·närd ‚spī·rəl] (engineering)
A type of magnetometer consisting of a spiral of bismuth wire and a Wheatstone bridge to measure changes in the resistance of the wire produced by magnetic fields and as a result of the transverse magnetoresistance of bismuth.
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