Does hematitte do anything ?

Question

Like Charge(off electricity in the environment) because it is iron

or affect technology... like destroy batteries, mess up radio signals, ect

Answer 1

It is magnetic. It does not effect batteries but will effect a compass. It is not charges but could be used to generate electricity as it moved passed a wire. Deposits do cause changes in a compass reading.

Answer 2

yes. it helps stop pain for arthiritis and other stuff. my grandparents sell it. it's not just magnetism. DUH!

Answer 3

Magnetism

Hematite is an antiferromagnetic material below the Morin transition at 260K, and a canted antiferromagnet or weakly ferromagnetic [1] above the Morin transition and below its Néel temperature at 948K, above which it is paramagnetic.

Hematite specimen showing well developed botryoidal structure for which this mineral is well-known. (Unknown scale)The magnetic structure of a-hematite was the subject of considerable discussion and debate in the 1950s because it appeared to be ferromagnetic with a Curie temperature of around 1000 K, but with an extremely tiny moment (0.002mB). Adding to the surprise was a transition with a decrease in temperature at around 260 K to a phase with no net magnetic moment.[citation needed]

Dzialoshinksi and later Moriya showed that the system is essentially antiferromagnetic but that the low symmetry of the cation sites allows spin–orbit coupling to cause canting of the moments when they are in the plane perpendicular to the c axis. The disappearance of the moment with a decrease in temperature at 260 K is caused by a change in the anisotropy which causes the moments to align along the c axis. In this configuration, spin canting does not reduce the energy.[citation needed]

Hematite is part of a complex solid solution oxyhydroxide system having various degrees of water, hydroxyl group, and vacancy substitutions that affect the mineral's magnetic and crystal chemical properties.[3] Two other end-members are referred to as protohematite and hydrohematite