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Superconductor superconductivity history and theory high temperature superconductors superconductivity applications resources a superconductor is a material that exhibits zero resistance to the flow of electrical current and becomes diamagnetic opaque to magnetic fields when cooled to a sufficiently low temperature. It was discovered that there are promising superconductors in a special class of materials, the so. High temperature superconductivity provides a broad survey of high temperature superconductivity, discussing the adaptations of experimental and theoretical techniques and methods that take advantage of the revolutionary properties of high temperature superconductors. While scientists have known for decades how lowtemperature superconductors work this introduction to superconductivity explains it, they dont yet understand whats behind hightemperature superconductors.
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