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.
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.
I believe it’s suspended by eddy currents, not magnetism. Aluminum is a non-magnetic metal.
Thanks! What’s the difference?
https://youtu.be/89xtM0yeq6A
eli5 - basically all materials have spins (As in electron spins), and magnetism is basically these tiny spins in materials, if paired - diamagnetism (all materials have this), paramagnetism (if you have unpaired electrons), and ferromagnetism (for now consider it special case of para). When heated up beyond curie temperature, ferro becomes para (kinda like fall back). Almost all metals are either para or ferro.
Now all materials kinda resist getting their state changed (there are 3 “energies” at play - exchange energies of electrons (consider the friendship force between electrons), electrons and external field, and the temperature “energy” (there is no real temp energy, but there is something like energy in form of k_B T, but that is not for now)). eddy current is basically manifestation of this (consider it like resistance to change of magnetisation by external field, by creating a field in opposite direction).