Resonant and nonresonant diffusion of electrons has been studied in a toroidal magnetic field with pulsed injection of electrons.We have experimental evidence of the theoretical predictions of B l 3/2 dependence of the diffusion coefficients in strong perturbation fields. We have observed the transition from Bla to B 1 3 / 2 behavior for Bl/Bo < 1 per cent where BL is the perturbing and Bo the uniform magnetic field. Theoretical models based on unperturbed orbit calculations are shown to be invalid for surprisingly small valuesWe have conducted measurements of nonresonant diffusion applicable to dissociation experiments in nonadiabatic traps. We find that the diffusion coefficient depends strongly on how nearly resonant the electron is with the perturbed field. For a 50 per cent change in effective perturbation frequency, the diffusion coefficient changes by a factor 1000.Our results can be scaled to the problem of nonadiabatic trapping and dissociation of molecular ions. We infer the resulting nonresonant protons would have a lifetime against nonadiabatic scattering 10,OOQ times longer than the parent molecular ioos.