[Poohbah]

Physicists in Japan have discovered that the melting point of water increases slightly in a strong magnetic field. Hideaki Inaba and colleagues at Chiba University found that it increases by 5.6 millikelvin for ordinary water in a field of 6 Tesla, and by 21.8 millikelvin for heavy water (J. Appl. Phys. 96 6127).

Could this be a byproduct of the magnetic field interacting with the thermometer? 0.0056 Kelvin and 0.0218 Kelvin are pretty small increments.

[Conservative Canuck]

Or the magnetic field energizes the trace metals in the water? This is kind of interesting, and goes back to something I saw last year in National Geographic. They studied how giant sea turtles navigated over thousands of miles, and determined they use the Earth's magneic field. This could lead to advances in navigation way beyond GPS.