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Re: Superconductive Wire

At 4:28 PM -0800 3/23/00, Leigh Palmer wrote:


>Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a good source for a short
>piece (6 inches) of conventional superconductive
>wire?
>
>
>Thanks
>Roger Haar
>U of AZ

50-50 solder should do the trick.


or aluminum or zinc or even tungsten if you're willing and able to go
low enough in T.

Even platinum has recently been found to be superconducting (but not
in conventional wire form).



High Tc ceramic superconductors can be found in four terminal
configurations for show-and-tell demos with liquid nitrogen.

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