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What is the largest capacitor ever made and what was its purpose?

The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory houses the world’s largest capacitor bank. A beast that stores fifty megajoules. They built it for one reason: to create magnetic fields that reach one hundred teslas – forces that don’t exist naturally on earth.

When they hit the switch, this monster discharges enough power to stop a fifty-eight ton train moving at one hundred fifty kilometers per hour. Dead. In ten milliseconds.

Scientists use these extreme magnetic fields to study how materials behave when reality warps — They look at metals, semiconductors — and other substances that reveal quantum secrets under massive magnetic pressure.

The Germans custom-built this capacitor bank. Size isn’t the point. It’s about raw electrical force used to push physics to its limits — Pure scientific firepower.

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