Calcium is a transition metal… found in limestone and coral and several levitation legends.
From: JonesBeene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2018 2:06 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:This could be the start of something big https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08572 “Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures” Dev Kumar Thapa, Anshu Pandey (Submitted on 23 Jul 2018) India Institute of Science. Specifically the authors who appear to be relatively unknown, found the HTSC and Meissner effect in silver nanoparticles embedded in a gold matrix. However, it seems clear that they expect more depth to the discovery than only gold and silver - and hopefully other less expensive combinations may turn up. They started with a view towards discovering “non-phonon based electron pairing mechanisms” – IOW plasmonic. Au and Ag are of course expensive precious metals with excellent normal conductivity, both thermal and electric, and notably both have low electron-phonon coupling and are not known to exhibit a superconducting state independently. Is that basic set of parameters the start of a formula which leads to other pairs such as zinc and cadmium or nickel and palladium? If there is broader applicability to other related pairs of transition metals, and of course if this finding is easily and quickly replicated – then it likely could be the start of an international race… which is reminiscent of the discovery of HTSC in copper oxides in 1986 by IBM researchers Bednorz and Muller, who were awarded the 1987 Nobel… and which scenario could happen again here if this is real. Of course, the IBM discovery failed to live up to the early hype. Jones
