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Flying Tinsel: What's going on

Published:   September 24, 2015
Total Running Time:   00:01:52

Making a piece of tinsel fly through the air may look like magic, but it's actually physics. Exploratorium Senior Scientist Paul Doherty explains how repelling charges keep the tinsel afloat.

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