Watch Scientists Accidentally Blow Up Their Lab With The Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever
Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Tokyo accidentally created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history and blew the doors of their lab in the process.
They were expecting to reach peak magnetic field intensities of around 700 Teslas, but the machine instead produced a peak of 1,200 Teslas.
As detailed in a paper recently published in the Review of Scientific Instruments, the researchers produced the magnetic field to test the material properties of a new generator system.
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Record indoor magnetic field of 1200 T generated by electromagnetic flux-compression: Review of Scientific Instruments: Vol 89, No 9