• pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    superconducting below 10K or -263C. a record but by no means room temperature.

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      11 months ago

      Loads of things superconduct below 10K - aluminium for one. This is for a different type of superconductor that can be turned on and off with a magnetic field.

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    11 months ago

    Very cool, I didn’t know a toggleable superconductor was even possible. With all this research into superconductivity it’s only a matter of time before a room-temperature superconductor is found.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah the headline makes you think it’s even within “normal” temperatures, and then you see that it’s like 10°C below above Absolute Zero.

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                11 months ago

                I thought negative Kelvin were sometimes used to describe very very high temperatures but I could be wrong.

                Thanks for the downvotes y’all, enjoy being wrong:

                " Negative absolute temperatures (or negative Kelvin temperatures) are hotter than all positive temperatures - even hotter than infinite temperature."