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Silicon Superconductors
Diana writes "Physicists at CNRS have demonstrated superconductivity in silicon, the element long known for its semiconducting properties. High doping is the key — by substituting 9% of the silicon atoms with boron atoms, it was found that the resistance of the material drops sharply when cooled below 0.35 K. A small increase in the transition temperature is likely with further work."
But you can make pretty much anything superconductive if you get it down below .5 Kelvin. I mean really, go much lower and you can make Twinkies superconductive much less boron doped silicon.
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Superconductivity in non-superconductive materials, except where they've been doped to be superconductive.
Makes me want to get back to the pub.
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And just to make the article more clear: Let's substitute "boron" with Tom (hey, what guy wouldn't want more boron?), and "silicon" with Suzie (hey, what girl woudln't want more, eh, yeah.).
"Because it has one fewer electron than Suzie available for bonding with neighbouring atoms, Tom incorporated into Suzie leaves a positively-charged "hole" at each site where Tom's "missing" electron would be paired with one of Suzie's."
Well they did do it in France, you know.
If we can turn semiconductors into superconductors, then we can probably turn my band conductor into a semi-conductor, which would at the very least mean less thrown chairs during parent teacher conferences, and less thrown chairs can only be good for Linux!
(Yes, that happened; and yes, he is still in band director.)
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Boron was made superconducting by doping it with 90% silicon.
It's just a process of discovery to advance science. If we didn't go through these scientific processes of discovery then we would still have people running around thinking that everything was controlled by some big booming voice in the sky. Oh wait...
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Please keep the profanity to yourselfNow there's something not seen every day - a wannabe list-mom, not afraid to strike out. Wickedly delivered, sure to strike fear in the heart of the evil-doer you've so publically chastised. Can we have another?
Let me offer just a small bit of advice, and remember, it is promised to be worth exactly what you paid for it.
Stop - don't do that again. You'll only bring attention to yourself as being a target ripe for kicking, while setting yourself up for a tight-fitting suit of frustration. Most forums have appointed Moderators who are responsible for reminding the rowdy - but this is Slashdot, where there are no visible moderators. Once the blood (yours) gets in the water, every shark in the vicinity will line up for a bite of your face...and they have pretty long memories, so don't think you can drop into lurk mode and resurface for a second attempt any time soon.
If you simply can't resist the urge to police another human being, try hanging out near the Slushy machine at your favorite 7-11. First time someone wastes a napkin or spills on the floor, feel free to put on your best mean-face...don't be shy. Promise them the risk of being banned from the store is real...ask their name and take it down, then angrily storm up to the cashier and hand it over, not with a shrug. but with the hard-boned hubrusity of someone who is convinced they are society's elite. This will not only make your day as a citizen, it will be something you'll be proud of for years to come.
Put it on your resume, perhaps. Who knows, with the way things are going, the need for easily identifiable assholes such as yourself may just become a premium within our lifetime.
I tried super-doping myself but it got boron after a while.
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I've been watching too much of the original Battlestar Galactica. With their "centons", "sectons", "furlons", "crawlons", and of course "Cylons", when I saw the term boron, my first thought was that it was some sort of unit of boredom. Then I read the article, and realized I was right.
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So I guess Pamela Anderson is more useful than we thought! Other than the obvious, of course. ;-)
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
I can do things I normally can't when I'm doped, too.
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