Surprising Superconduction in Plutonium

jihema writes "Dr Strangelove would have liked this : a plutonium compound turns out to be a superconductor at relatively high temperature (18 K). The magnetic properties of this metal make this fact rather unexpected and contradicts the accepted theory on superconduction."

Comments

"OK, lets freeze this plutonium,

[Unknown Poltroon]

and run high voltage through it"

Dosent this sound like some kind of bad b-move plot?? Im wating for the time traveling DeLorean to show up.

WHAT?!

[Hubert_Shrump]

You mean we were fitting rockets to those things for years, when all we needed was a great huge magnet?

Man, the Pentagon's going to be pissed.

Re:buying plutonium on the black market

[Mark of THE CITY]

The LAST thing one of these "random University professors" would do is buy Plutonium on the black market.

Of course; could you imagine putting this on a research grant?

Name: Plutonium
Qty: 100g
Vendor: mumble

:)

Liquid N2 vs Milk

[ShavenYak]

HST composites only need liqud nitrogen (which costs the same as milk)... ...but is nowhere near as much fun when worn as a mustache!

Got Severe Painful Frostbite?

Re:Pb--Great

[Henry V .009]

You idiot! Now all of the terrorists that I fooled into building their weapons of mass destruction out of lead will realize their mistake. I hope you understand that you'll be personally responsible when they nuke Dallas.

Has been done!

[infolib]

In Copenhagen, students were recently allowed to purchase Two kilograms of weapons-grade uranium!

The students were part of a group that do experimental shows demonstrating funny/scary/fascinating physics. Apparently the guy who signed the list of wanted equipment didn't notice the uranium between the more boring stuff such as lasers etc.

Now we just need a seller. Any offers? (Yeah, I know, i should just mail press@uruklink.net and offer to keep it while there's inspectors around)

Re:Pb--Great

[BSOD from above]

I'll bring the beer...