Highly doubtful. Above curie temperture of Nickel so no ferromagnetism, and powder too microscopic hot resistivity too high, and AC frequency, current and number of windings too low for strong magnetic fields or significant eddy currents to form and give push via lenzs law.
On 15 October 2014 14:05, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > The following is a bit speculative, but perhaps someone can correct any >> misstatements I make -- if there is a magnetic field being created by the >> cables coiling around the tube [1], I believe the field would point along >> the axis of the tube, creating a theta pinch, even if only momentarily. >> > > It now occurs to me that such a field will itself create quite a bit of > acceleration of the metal particles in the tube. > > Eric > >
