Post by hellomeow on Mar 29, 2008 22:06:10 GMT -5
Check this out
Magnets that are supercooled with liquid nitrogen are pretty damn cool.[/badpun] The conductive material used in this video was likely a high-temperature superconductor, which is rather funny considering that those are considered to have critical temperatures of super conductivity in excess of 90 kelvin. This is interesting to me because it involves temperature, energy, magnetism, and apparently the alignment of the atoms in the conductor itself become very organized at the critical temperatures which can explain the behavior of low-temperature superconductors (less than 1 to 20 kelvin) but not the higher temperature ones.
As you can see, at a certain temperature the resistivity of the conductor immediately decreases to zero.
For more information on Superconductors, RTFW
Magnets that are supercooled with liquid nitrogen are pretty damn cool.[/badpun] The conductive material used in this video was likely a high-temperature superconductor, which is rather funny considering that those are considered to have critical temperatures of super conductivity in excess of 90 kelvin. This is interesting to me because it involves temperature, energy, magnetism, and apparently the alignment of the atoms in the conductor itself become very organized at the critical temperatures which can explain the behavior of low-temperature superconductors (less than 1 to 20 kelvin) but not the higher temperature ones.
As you can see, at a certain temperature the resistivity of the conductor immediately decreases to zero.
For more information on Superconductors, RTFW
