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From: whh@pbhya.UUCP (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: superconductor recipes wanted
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Date: 1 Feb 88 02:20:54 GMT
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In article <20175@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
> 
> It just hit me that I could build a superconductor in my own garage,
> given access to liquid nitrogen. (don't ask why it took so long)
> 
> Has anyone reading this done so? Got any good recipes? Sources of the
> chemicals needed? (I shouldn't have any problem getting the liquid
> nitrogen.) I expect any chemical supply house could provide most of
> the ingredients but I've never dealt with one. Do they sell to anyone?
> (couldn't that be dangerous?)


I seem to remeber seeing that Edmund Scientific has a kit out that
contains everthing you need to make a 1:2:3 superconductor. (That's
the BASIC recipe--the ratio of the three principle metals in the 
ceramic.)  Check any issue of Popular Science, Scientific American
etc., etc. for their address.  None of the chemicals are dangerous,
but I think you'll need access to a ceramics kiln to 'cook' it.


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