Oxygen drips upwards from superconductors

D. Wood, V. Greener and D. P. Hampshire ()
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D. Wood: School of Engineering, University of Durham
V. Greener: University of Durham
D. P. Hampshire: University of Durham

Nature, 2002, vol. 415, issue 6874, 860-860

Abstract: Abstract In a famous experiment, a magnet is levitated above a superconductor that has been cooled to 77 K in liquid nitrogen. Here we show that in this set-up, liquid oxygen drops form on the superconductor, drip upwards, hit the magnet and then boil.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/415860a

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