Comments on: Booze-Soaked Superconductors Provide Hot Physics Results http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/18/booze-soaked-superconductors-provide-hot-physics-results/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Scott http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/18/booze-soaked-superconductors-provide-hot-physics-results/comment-page-1/#comment-63065 David Scott Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:26:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=15639#comment-63065 Resistance of Clorox is also zero Resistance of Clorox is also zero

]]> By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/18/booze-soaked-superconductors-provide-hot-physics-results/comment-page-1/#comment-63024 Eliza Strickland Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:40:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=15639#comment-63024 @ Chris: I changed the text to be a bit more specific and accurate. Superconductors like those used at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider are chilled to just above absolute zero: 2 degrees Kelvin, or -271 degrees Celsius. And since there's a range for what is considered a "hot" superconductor (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconductivity" rel="nofollow">some sources</a> put the threshold at 30 degrees Kelvin, or -243 degrees Celsius, while <a href="http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/09/10/superconductors-future/" rel="nofollow">others consider</a> the magic line to be 77 degrees Kelvin, or -192 Celsius) I took that bit out. -- Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor @ Chris: I changed the text to be a bit more specific and accurate. Superconductors like those used at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider are chilled to just above absolute zero: 2 degrees Kelvin, or -271 degrees Celsius.

And since there’s a range for what is considered a “hot” superconductor (some sources put the threshold at 30 degrees Kelvin, or -243 degrees Celsius, while others consider the magic line to be 77 degrees Kelvin, or -192 Celsius) I took that bit out.

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

]]> By: Chris http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/18/booze-soaked-superconductors-provide-hot-physics-results/comment-page-1/#comment-63021 Chris Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:12:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=15639#comment-63021 I think you may want to check your temps. The paper has the superconducting state at around 7.8 K, nowhere near your -240 and -140 C. I think you may want to check your temps. The paper has the superconducting state at around 7.8 K, nowhere near your -240 and -140 C.

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