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From: svv@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Nobody in Particular)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: superconductor recipes wanted
Keywords: supercondutor demo kit
Message-ID: <633@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 9 Feb 88 06:19:30 GMT
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In article <193@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
>
> ...The only additional
>material needed is liquid nitrogen to cool the disk for demonstrating
>the Meissner effect, in which a superconducting disk can be floated
>over a magnet.  

WOW! The disk can be floated over the magnet!! That's a real strong
magnetic field!!

(Actually, methinks the magnet floats over the disk, but what do I
know? I'm not a physics major...)


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