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Levitating pumpkins! Halloween science
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Levitating pumpkins! Halloween science
  • Published_at:2014-10-31
  • Category:Science & Technology
  • Channel:The Royal Institution
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  • description: "And the cursed pumpkin rose up from the earth, carried to the sky by the spirits of All Hallows' Eve." Or in other words, Andy put a superconductor in a pumpkin and levitated it on a magnetic track. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Happy Halloween! To celebrate this year we thought we’d have some fun with a pumpkin and superconductor. Inspired by this previous video (http://youtu.be/zPqEEZa2Gis), Andy took to the prep room to imbue a cheerful pumpkin with the eerie powers of superconductor levitation. Watch last year’s explosive pumpkin exploits here: http://youtu.be/jPrjBJt02ek Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch more science videos on the Ri Channel http://richannel.org The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://richannel.org/newsletter
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