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Superconductors – Meissner effect

Magnetic levitation above superconductors - Meissner effect

Superconductors – Meissner effect

A magnet levitating, “pinned” above a 1 inch disk of Yttrium, Barium and Copper superconductor in a pool of liquid Nitrogen at -196C. This is the “Meissner” effect.
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