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I call this 6 MIN. STOVE-TOP MAGNETIC LEVITATION!!
Decided to FINALLY make a video of this method tonight ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSjDJgD7fO8
$20 for 1 POUND of 99.95% PURE BISMUTH (however I bought some time ago 35 pounds CHEAP).
the bottom of coke cans (or beer cans, whatever the hell you drink!)
take a CRUDE chunk like below, melt it on the stop top (ONLY MELT PURE PURE BISMUTH!!!!)
takes 6 mins or so to melt, pour it into the bottom of your coke cans, let cool, pop out, and TAAA DAAAAAAAAAA DIAMAGNETIC BISMUTH DISKS FOR BUILDING YOUR OWN MAGNETIC LEVITATION DEVICE!!!!
1 pound will fill 4 CAN BOTTOMS, meaning 2 COMPLETE sets of levitation devices.
go from CRUMBLY metal to smoooooth as a babys ass disks
.......bismuth is JUST above lead in weight, so its some VERY heavy stuff.Make a BISMUTH NEO MAGGIE LEVITATOR!!
Oh, I wore a mask just for the hell of it, however with pure bismuth you really dont have to.
Is Bismuth RADIOACTIVE? YES.....and no, ....mostly NO.
Physicists in France have measured the longest ever radioactive half-life - over twenty billion billion years - in a naturally occurring element that decays by emitting alpha-particles. Nőel Coron and colleagues at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay used a ‘scintillating bolometer’ at very low temperatures to detect the emission of alpha particles – charged particles that consist of two protons and two neutrons – as bismuth-209 decays into thallium-205
Although bismuth-209 is commonly thought to be the heaviest stable isotope that exists in nature, theory suggests that it should be metastable and decay via alpha-particle emission to thallium-205. This decay is not easy to measure because the alpha particles generated have very little energy, which means that the isotope decays at a very low rate.
and of course , you can grow pretty Bismuth crystals like below:
Here you can see the bismuth cooling in the can bottoms, done cooling WHAM! snap them out from inside using a wooden rod etc.
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