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New metallic superconductor makes an immediate impact

Apr 1, 2001

The recent chance discovery that magnesium diboride becomes superconducting at 40 K - almost twice the temperature of other simple intermetallic compounds - has sparked a race to uncover its basic properties and to process the material for applications.

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