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To: neverdem
"More on NMR, also known as Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI."

No, actually it's not. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging" is a subset of "nuclear magnetic resonance". NMR used for chemical analysis purposes doesn't do any "imaging", and is properly called "NMR".

4 posted on 01/27/2006 4:42:04 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
No, actually it's not. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging" is a subset of "nuclear magnetic resonance".

Thank you for the correction, but IIRC, the name "Magnetic Resonance Imaging" is at least partly due a fear that this imaging technique involved nuclear radiation. Magnetic resonance imaging was developed from knowledge gained in the study of nuclear magnetic resonance. The original name for the medical technology is nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), but the word nuclear is almost universally dropped. This is done to avoid the negative connotations of the word nuclear, and to prevent patients from associating the examination with radiation exposure. Scientists still use NMR when discussing non-medical devices operating on the same principles.

NMR used for chemical analysis purposes doesn't do any "imaging", and is properly called "NMR".

Unless someone is a chemist who was completely blind from birth, I can't imagine how a chemist can analyze the various possibilities in a molecule's structure from any chemical formula without using some sort of image.

5 posted on 01/27/2006 8:32:40 AM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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