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Graham McLeod

levitating frog

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

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

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HN discussion years: 2012-2014

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