Results are reported for the pool boiling of a solution of paramagnetic manganese chloride in water in microgravity conditions. Pool boiling was recorded on video in two tanks that were identical, except that one tank had a strong permanent magnet mounted directly beneath the heater surface. In both tanks, the entire volume of liquid was essentially at saturated conditions. For this 4.5 molal solution, the computed magnitude of the magnetic Kelvin force adjacent to the heater surface was 15% of Earth gravity. The boiling liquid in both tanks quickly changed to a bubbly foam during the onset of reduced gravity conditions. The height of the liquid column expanded by as much as a factor of three. The Kelvin force reduced the expanded height of the column by an average of 15%.
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