Levitating Silicon Chip on Pyrolytic Graphite

This is a small square of graphite floating on an array of magnets. A tiny silicon chip is being carried by the graphite.

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• floating
• levitation
• pyrolytic
• diamagnetic
• magnet

[buchnermarkus]

How did you get it out of the case? ( the chip )

[ianorg]

Luck. :-)

Sometimes you can find chips just glued to a circuit board. Other times if you crush it with a vice it splits perfectly. But most times it just destroys the whole thing. I have a handfull I lucked into opening, but have given up trying to extract the silicon out of the black IC packaging. It's just too hard without some REALLY nasty acids.

[AKAtheA]

@ianorg burning at low temperature also somewhat works...it's a bit messy and smelly of course...

[otivaeey]

i don't get it. Isn't just graphite itself necessary? why add silicon chip on top of graphite?

[aMammoth]

Now how much would I need to levitate, me? I'm guessing I should just buy some superconductors, probably be cheaper.

[Miskarekola]

Fucking Magnets How Do They Work!

[xxKoRndudexx]

magic.....

[Rufftyroff]

The bigger the cubes, the higher the levitation? Then I'll get 4 cubes that are the largest.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Pyrolytic Graphite is strongly diamagnetic in only one molecular direction. all atoms in the Pyrolytic Graphite are lined up in one direction.

[datlildodge]

idone that

[girlsdrinkfeck]

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