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Levitation Melting by Sergey V. Kukhtetskiy
Levitation Melting by Sergey V. Kukhtetskiy
Levitation Melting by Sergey V. Kukhtetskiy
Source is YouTube and Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology SB RAS (PDF). If you have 2 kilowatts, a coil of copper pipe, and a lot of guts, you too could melt aluminum with induction heating while it's levitating.
Aww, I wanted to see it splat into the floor when they turn off the induction coil...
I always thought it fell when it got so hot that it lost its magnetism I'm sure I have read that metals do that at too high temperatures
Indeed.
Despite my own work in making knives and other blacksmithing things, where I LITERALLY have a magnet on my anvil so I can test for when the steel hits it's austenitic temp, I somehow managed to forget the iron will go non magnetic...
So yeah. Thanks for the reminder!
In my defense I haven't made any knives since moving a year ago...
However, this is aluminum I think? I'm not entirely sure how magnetism works with lenzs law and if there's a temperature it stops working...
FYI, you can see that in the source, which is linked in the description.