Schenectady NY - New cobalt platinum magnet, developed by scientist of the General Electric Research Laboratory here, is said to be the most powerful in the world in small sizes. A small cobalt-platinum magnet, about the size of a pencil eraser, right, lifts a steel bar 16 times longer and 24 times heavier than that lifted by alnico-5 magnet of a similar size, in demonstration by Miss Dolores O'Hara, Laboratory assistant,
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