Levitated Sample (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Levitated Sample

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A solid sample hovers in space in NASA's electrostatic levitation chamber. Similar chambers built at Washington University in St. Louis are containerless containers that allow scientists to study materials undergoing phase transitions in the absence of contamination that might alter how the material behaved.

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Jan Rogers/NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center

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