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To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered landscape, NASA is considering a magnetic levitation railway system.
—Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 21 May 2024
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Additionally, observes Scientific American, superconductors repel magnetic fields, which could lead to more efficient magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
Meanwhile, researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China posted a video on Aug. 1, showing magnetic levitation of a LK-99 sample.
—Will Henshall, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
Advertisement After the experiments, the students agreed that quantum levitation was more stable than magnetic levitation.
—Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
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First Known Use
1966, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of magnetic levitation was
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“Magnetic levitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnetic%20levitation. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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