Magnetic levitation effects in high magnetic fields and its application to
crystal growth and materials processing have been investigated at High Fiel
d Laboratory for Superconducting Materials of IMR, Tohoku University. We ha
ve succeeded in (1) growing of some ionic crystals in a levitating solution
, and (2) melting of levitating glass that makes a perfect sphere and fine
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