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Bin Yuan1, Lei Wang1, Xiaohu Yang1
1Key Laboratory of Cryogenics Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China.
Abstract:
The first ever oscillation phenomenon of a copper wire embraced inside a self-powered liquid metal machine is discovered. When contacting a copper wire to liquid metal machine, it would be swallowed inside and then reciprocally moves back and forth, just like a violin bow. Such oscillation could be easily regulated by touching a steel needle on the liquid metal surface.
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