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The two Chinese labs working on replicating LK-99 appear to have found a room-temperature superconductor at ambient pressure. (arxiv.org)
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Here's what's different from last time:

  • it's more like "room temperature" than room temperature, the paper says 250K which is -23 C.

  • it has already replicated, with two separate labs in China confirming the results.

  • The chemical difference appears to be that this thing has sulphur where LK-99 did not.

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[โ€“] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another one is sensors that could be cheap and extremely precise. Their applications could range from being used inside nuclear fusion reactors, to finally make them possible or at least make them more efficient, to medical and space needs.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

For sure, there are limitless possibilities here and a whole bunch of tech that will be possible that nobody has even thought of yet.