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Believe it or not, the levitation effect can be found in non-superconducting materials with a high diamagnetic constant such as pyrolytic carbon. Induced magnetic fields are created by "effective currents," which can occur in zero-resistance systems that are not called superconductors (because they can't conduct across a significant distance, only around a tiny loop) like molecular or atomic orbitals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolytic_carbon



Diamagnetism was my first reaction when I saw lead, and the addition of copper makes me think eddy current reactivity.


...and this is Eddy's sofa, is it?




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