Super Conductivity Demonstration

This is at the Toshiba Science Museum, a really neat place in Japan. We were on the guided tour so the guide showed us a demonstration of Superconductivity. Something about ceramic plates being brought down to a subzero temperature and making it magnetic. Anyway that giant white ring thing is really a super powerful magnet and well...does what magnets do best with the repelling forces and all.

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[MrGoogfan]

@ymi2b

either you're trolling, or you're an idiot...

search "cold day breath" on google images

[LMB222]

"Something about ceramic plates being brought down to a subzero temperature and making it magnetic" Good! Except that the ceramic plates become diamagnetic, or "anti-magnetic", they don't want the magnetic field. It's like an opposite of an iron bar.

[ymi2b]

@MrGoogfan

I brush my teeth and stuff, I am quite clean, so I'm not sure what you're implying or trying to insult me with.

[MrGoogfan]

@ymi2b there is no dust. It's like your breath on a cold day.

[ymi2b]

@MrGoogfan

..... hmm.... doesn't explain the dust it's kicking up, though.

[MrGoogfan]

@ymi2b

the dry ice is so cold it instantly freezes the humidity in the air.

[ymi2b]

@MrGoogfan

I guess it could be dust and not smoke because smoke rises and dust settles and that dust is plentiful and settling. But where's the dust from, though, the table doesn't look really dirty or anything like that. Does it produce dust somehow?

[MrGoogfan]

@ymi2b

idiot, it's cold. that's ice dust.

[ymi2b]

Man, it kicks out a lot of polution though... lookit all that smoke, serious internal smog polution