Comments by "Liam" (@1495978707) on "DIY Perks" channel.

  1. 14:00 The reason soap in particular works for this is because it makes little spheres of soap called micelles. Clay in water exhibits this as well, but it settles, which the soap doesn’t
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  2. 9:00 You know you can thicken the magnet up with tape right? Measure the clearance you had before, and thicken the magnet until the clearance is about the same. What you did here is much cooler though
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  3. 18:10 I do want to note that almost half of people are deficient in vitamin D, so taking a supplement of that helps too, since your body can only make it with UVB exposure which this light doesn’t provide, plus more UVB means greater skin cancer risk
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  4. 4:15 You could use a stationary coil and a moving magnet instead. Or perhaps do a railgun setup. DC will make this a lot easier to control. Perhaps you could draw some inspiration from monorail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_HFnNTfyU. Real monorails have electromagnets on the train and just metal in the rail. This is AC though.
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