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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: New superconducting (Houston)
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 13:06:17 EST
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> In-reply-to: schumann@puff.WISC.EDU's message of 17 Feb 87 19:27:10 GMT
> 
> Based on what I saw in the San Jose Mercury-News, a research team has
> developed an alloy which begins exhibiting superconducting behavior at
> an extremely high temperature (well above the boiling-point of liquid
> helium, and well below the boiling point of liquid nitrogen) at
> "normal" pressures.

I never saw the article, but about a month ago a friend who works with
superconducting magnets at MIT mentioned such a breakthough.  The new
superconducting material will superconduct at around 40K, and its 
probably going to be much cheaper to make than the previous record
holder, which superconducts at around 20K.  Because of the cost of the
20K superconductor, they've done little to no magnetics research with it,
they're still well into liquid He and occasionally He3.
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