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New Superconductor Found "Immune To Magnetism"

Posted by kdawson on from the north-south-it's-all-the-same-to-me dept.

Lisandro sends in news that testing of the new class of superconductors we discussed a while back (compounds of iron, lanthanum, and rare earths) has turned up a major surprise: magnetism doesn't shut off the superconducting state. Magnetic fields represent one of three factors that limit expanded applications for superconductors (the others are current density and temperature dependence.) The research will appear in Nature; here's a preprint (PDF).

18 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Another limit? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    Resistance is ductile.

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  2. Oh come on! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I knew this a few years ago. I was thinking about super conductors and magnetic states and thought "huh, how about that". I recall getting up to get a breakfast burrito.

    Since then, no one has asked and I haven't even thought to mention it.

    Oh well.

  3. AC! by tcoder70 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Ah Crappp!!!" - Magneto, 2008

    1. Re:AC! by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dr. Frank Hunte, I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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  4. Lanthanum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    (compounds of iron, lanthanum, and rare earths) Lanthanum and rare earths, eh?
    Since when does Lanthanum not belong to the rare earths anymore?
    Ah, kdawson posted it, that explains everything.
  5. "Immune to Gravity" coming soon? by seanonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's really neat and all, but please let me know when they find something that's immune to gravity, as it's essential to a project I'm working on. (I have a deadline.)

    1. Re:"Immune to Gravity" coming soon? by CowboyNealOption · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sadly everything on the planet that was immune to gravity drifted away from the earth before people existed.

    2. Re:"Immune to Gravity" coming soon? by ceoyoyo · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's been known for quite a while. It's called vacuum. There's LOTS of it around too.

    3. Re:"Immune to Gravity" coming soon? by 12357bd · · Score: 2, Funny

      Did you ever heard about something involving two cats?

      The only detected problem was the noise...

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    4. Re:"Immune to Gravity" coming soon? by BooleanLobster · · Score: 3, Funny
      It might not be as plentiful as you think. I've heard an anecdote that the Guinness Book of World Records lists vacuum as the most expensive substance known to man...

      Most expensive by weight, that is. Additionally, higher quality vacuums are exponentially more expensive!

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  6. Re:Internal Resistance by argent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Internal resistanceless batteries would make any kind of short circuit very exciting.

    But useful for McGuyver!

  7. Re:60 T is pretty strong by PIPBoy3000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dang. It's starting to show that I've left science and gone into computers.

    If only they'd expressed it in powers of two (e.g. 2^16).

  8. Re:Another limit? by JimboTheMagnifico · · Score: 3, Funny

    So by the transitive property of puns: Ductile is Futile.

  9. Re:Internal Resistance by zap0d · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am a scientist and so work with Kelvin all the time. However, I think that Fahrenheit is actually a more useful temperature scale for humans than Celsius. Basically, 0F is wicked cold and 100F is wicked hot. It makes sense for how _we_ relate to temperature rather than how water relates to temperature. That sounds like a very scientific explanation.
  10. Re:Internal Resistance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When will people use standard units? I'm sorry it's a particular gripe of mine; kelvin is the universal scale. The sooner we wipe out imperial units the better (unless anyone else wants to convert to a base 12 system?). There's nothing imperial about fahrenheit degrees, mate. The only country using fahrenheit is a former colony of a post-imperial member of the EU.

      The kelvin scale is ultimately derived from the celsius scale, which is only linked to the decimalist system by the fact that Celsius (a Swede) chose to use 100 subdivisions instead of the obviously logical 180 between the freezing point and the boiling point of ice (or water as it is called in warmer countries).
  11. Re:Another limit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Northeastern Montana, for one. Right where I live.


    Yeah, until Yellowstone blows.

  12. base-10 by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 2, Funny

    When will people use standard units? I'm sorry it's a particular gripe of mine; kelvin is the universal scale. The sooner we wipe out imperial units the better (unless anyone else wants to convert to a base 12 system?).
    No system is fit to be called "Standard" until it's base 2...
     

    ...PUNY HUMANS

  13. Re:Internal Resistance by wildsurf · · Score: 2, Funny

    The sooner we wipe out imperial units the better

    Just don't tell today's kids that the number of cubic feet in a gallon is .1337.

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