K, I'll try to reproduce it from memory..
He took a 0.5L glass, poured it almost full of the old soviet era sea salt. Produced a solution of NaOH with a pH of 3.5, then waited for a white powder to settle out. He took the white powder and put it into a solution of NaOH with a pH of 3.7 and let it settle out again. He washed the white substance out with bi-dest water several times. From 0.5L of salt, he had a few milli-litres of white powder. He then put it into a -20 *C freezer. After a day in the freezer, he dried it in vacuum.
In the vacuum, something happened so that later 1/3 of the powder was outside the glass but in close proximity to it (some on the glass, some on the plastic base plate as a ring around the glass).
After drying, he put in some vinegar with a pH of 5 to remove Magnesium. After this, little grains with a golden shimmer settled out. He then washed it with bi-dest water again.
When he would rock the glass, these little grains would spin around in the water and it would take a long time for them to settle down at the bottom of the glass again.
It would seem that it acts pretty similarly like magnet to iron dust. Also, it really reminds me of helium when cooled to really low temperatures. You should check this video... really sounds similar:
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:) It reminds me of superfluids too. Though, it would have to be superfluid in the solid state or something to crawl out of the glass like that.
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