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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).

7 of 201 comments (clear)

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

    Resistance is ductile.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. "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 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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      In hell, you will find a mountain of broken, feces-covered typewriters and a stack of copies of the First Folio.
  3. Re:Internal Resistance by argent · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    But useful for McGuyver!

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

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