Weightless Molten Metal
by Science Source
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Weightless Molten Metal
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Science Source
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This image shows a lump of free-floating molten metal suspended by electromagnetic force during 20 seconds of weightlessness on a parabolic flight. The European Space Agency's Blue Dot mission inaugurates the electromagnetic levitator in ESA's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station. This is a furnace that can heat metals up to 2100°C and then cool them rapidly. For scientists observing liquid metals cooling in weightlessness, the furnace removes unnecessary complexity to reveal the core processes of physics. The electromagnetic levitator takes things a step further and suspends the metals in mid-air as they melt and solidify.
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June 14th, 2016
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