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Guitar pickup.
An example of the element Samarium

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Samarium Guitar pickup
Guitar pickup.
For some reason guitar pickups are advertised as using samarium cobalt magnets instead of the more common neodymium iron boron variety, because they are "lower noise". I have no idea if this is true, but it sounds fishy to me.
Source: eBay seller musicpartsguru
Contributor: Theodore Gray
Acquired: 17 April, 2009
Text Updated: 17 April, 2009
Price: $60
Size: 3"
Purity: <30%
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