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Re:New material shows zero heat expansion from 4 to 1400 K by elcritch on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:31PM (#27487950)
Even given the cost, I'd wager many applications for sensitive instruments could make use of it.
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Re:New material shows zero heat expansion from 4 to 1400 K by kortex on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:04AM (#27489654)
Oh totally. There's tons of applications where some small widget needs stupendously low thermal expansion. Atomic force microscopy immediately comes to mind; lots of metrology use cases in general.
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