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levitation

[lev-i-tey-shuhn] / ˌlɛv ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity without electrical resistance -- making them the ideal base material for electronic components in MRI machines, magnetic levitation trains and even particle accelerators.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

Those that fall are lifted out of the way, as if by levitation, then lowered back into place after each frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Some of the most exciting and promising clean tech — like magnetic levitation trains and other low-cost, high-speed transportation — could finally be viable for mass development with superconductor use.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2023

The levitation video is also not definitive, because non-superconducting materials including graphite can also partially float in the same way.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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