Superconductors may have incredible future travel applications as they have much less resistance when constructing traditional rails, tracks and the like. Now, they may have discovered propeties of incredible performance from an unsuspecting compound:
Hydrogen sulfide — the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs — conducts electricity with zero resistance at a record high temperature of 203 kelvin (–70 °C), reports a paper published today in Nature1.
The first results of the work, which represents a historic step towards finding a room-temperature superconductor, were released on the arXiv preprint server in December2 and followed up by morein June3. They have already sparked a wave of excitement within the research community.
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Yes
@[100000178590311:2048:Joseph Tran]
@[100006085812275:2048:Timothy J Brown]
I bet it’s graphite,
@[735397592:2048:Salvatore Pagano]
Does that mean (tampering with the temperature) there are other superconductors that we have not identified because it’s not the right temp? If universities would focus on the work experiments of Nikola Tesla, there would be a possibility of so many possibilities.
Pretty soon when I cross the RR tracks I’m going to want to barf lol
@[100003073074463:2048:Deanna Rebecca Bahamonde]
@[1289861768:2048:Lorrie Roberts]
Cool stuff huh? They found this at Argonne APS. Your Government dollars at work for you.
Cool stuff. Now they have to work on the oder. Oder changing isn’t anything new
I will find out is this was done where I work if you want son
question: does an object becoming weightless transfer the weight to the base?