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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).

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  1. Re:Internal Resistance by who+knows+my+name · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?).

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  2. Re:Internal Resistance by who+knows+my+name · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't a matter of opinion, it's an international standard. There is a reason decimalisation took place; we have a base 10 number system. If everyone uses their own defined set of units then people waste time when we try and cooperate.

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