On 7/8/06, andy <bonham15 at cox.net> wrote: > Radiating also seems like a bad fit, seems to do the opposite in fact. It > might have a null field which extends from the mineral, but doesn't radiate > in the classic 'uranium made me grow an extra eye' sense. That so does not make sense. Anything that works in an area that extends out from the thing itself is a "field". And "radiating" is the proper term to use to refer to this extension. The Phoenix Stones have fields that radiate out from the centers of their respective masses. It almost certainly isn't hard radiation as we understand it (that is, alpha, beta and gamma rays, or helium nuclei, high-energy electrons, and very high wavelength photons), which is perhaps what you meant, but really, who can say? > > More like lead vs superman's xray vision. > Exactly not. Lead blocks only where it is. Anything around the edges of the lead is not blocked; there is no field.