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Magnetism
Explain how you could use magnets to make a small object appear to float in air?
Answer

Wiki User
February 12, 2011 10:09AM
If you hold two magnets in your hand one below the other so that the north side of one magnet is facing north of the other and vice-versa, then place a metallic entity between these two magnets then it will appear to float provided distance between magnets and their force is equal.
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