Magnetic levitation of large water droplets and mice

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 208-213

  Liu, Yuanming ^a   Zhu, Da Ming ^b   Strayer, Donald M ^a   Israelsson, Ulf E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic levitation; Mice; Reduced gravity; Variable gravity; Water droplets

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; DROPS; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; MAGNETS; MAMMALS; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

FIELD GRADIENT; IN-DEPTH STUDY; LARGE WATER DROPS; MICE; REDUCED GRAVITY; SMALL MAMMALS; WATER DROP; WATER DROPLETS;

MAGNETIC LEVITATION;

EID: 71649084792     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2009.08.033     Document Type: Article

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