Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
by CamperBob2 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:54PM
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Going from 23K to 35K is useful but not a game-changer. Going to 127C will be, if it works.
Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
by PaulHoule on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:06AM
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They rapidly got up to liquid nitrogen temperatures so when I was in high school we would go to the welding supply shop, bring back liquid nitrogen to the lab, and do the Meissner effect demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRLvVkkq5GE
Liquid nitrogen is very easy to handle (ordinary thermos), liquid helium is much more expensive and harder. WHen I was in grad school the one required class was the Physics 510 lab and for that I did an experiment that involved second sound in superfluid helium and that involved cooling stuff down with liquid nitrogen first, then rolling up a huge dewar full of liquid helium, attaching a vacuum pump to get the temperature down to 2K, etc. For all that trouble you get to see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNpKCYZFfDU
That said, it was a long time before really good superconducting tape for fusion reactor magnets and stuff like that became available.
Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
by thehappypm on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:00PM
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133K is the record for them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuprate_superconductor
This was something that people said would change the world when I was in high school and it really hasn't. (For that matter, the fundamental physics is still not very well understood)