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THIS communication concerns the nature of some peculiar forces experienced by a body immersed in magnetic fluid when the body is a source of magnetic field. Prediction and experimental demonstration are given of the stable ‘fluidmagnetic’ levitation of a permanent magnet at an interior region of the fluid.
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Rosensweig, R. E., Nestor, J. W., and Timmins, R. S., Paper 5.14, British Institute of Chemical Engineers/American Institute of Chemical Engineers Joint Meeting (London, June 1965).
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See, for example, Jeans, J. H., The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Chap. 7, Sec. 192 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1948). Also: Stratton, J. A., Electromagnetic Theory, 116 (McGraw-Hill, 1944).
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ROSENSWEIG, R. Buoyancy and Stable Levitation of a Magnetic Body immersed in a Magnetizable Fluid. Nature 210, 613–614 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210613a0
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