In today's issue of the journal Nature there is a report on the discovery of a room temperature superconductor, it's a compound of hydrogen, nitrogen and lutetium, the researchers claim it remains a superconductor up to a blistering 69.8°F, although you need to pressurize it to about 10 times the pressure you get at the bottom of the Marianas Trench for it to work, that sounds like a lot of pressure but it's 100 times less than the pressure required in previous similar compounds. If this turns out to be true it could be a big deal but the same group made a similar claim a few years ago and then had to retract it so the work needs to be confirmed by others ; still it was published in the journal Nature and that's about as respectable as you can get so it must have something going for it.
A Room-Temperature Superconductor <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05742-0> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 6rw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2-BOppr_3tiJBrz7SZp8nUZVuO8OCwEA3d5L0i7mL7iQ%40mail.gmail.com.
