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Distilling Liquid Oxygen

This is a beaker being filled with liquid oxygen for our demonstration showing the substance's paramagnetism. When dropped between the poles of a large electromagnet, the liquid will stay suspended in mid-air. The eerie greenish blue glow certainly doesn't hurt the other-worldly effect.

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Uploaded on January 12, 2009
Taken on October 30, 2008