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LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's not a superconductor, but it is a weirdconductor

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Not even a conductor at all, apparently.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06256 this group (mentioned jn the article above) synthesized a fully pure crystal, and found that has a resistance in the several megaohms at room temperature. Just a purple piece of glass, functionally speaking. The thoughts of superconductivity was due to random copper sulfate impurities which DO conduct electricity.

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