How to simply demonstrate diamagnetic levitation with pencil lead
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A new simple arrangement how to demonstrate diamagnetic levitation is presented. It uses pencil lead levitating in a track built from neodymium magnets. This arrangement can also be used as a classroom experiment. S Online supplementary data available from stacks.iop.org/PhysED/51/014001/mmedia IOP
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