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levitating frog

Graham McLeod

levitating frog

A short clip of a frog levitating inside a roughly 10 tesla magnetic coil, demonstrating diamagnetism.

Cited as the canonical eye-catching demo of diamagnetic levitation, and sometimes used as a joke in magnet threads.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2012–2014

Topics

  • Everyday physics & science demos
  • Fundamental physics

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