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The reason they need to be superconducting is that they have LOTS of amperage flowing through them.

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They introduced a measure for the order among the electrons, which they called the superconducting order parameter.

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Liquid helium is used widely as a coolant, in superconducting magnets, for example.

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Finding materials which remain superconducting at higher temperatures has therefore, over the past 75 years, been a dream which many researchers have tried to fulfill.

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They can do that because when they are very cold they are what's called superconducting wire.

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They can do that because when they are very cold they are what's called superconducting wire.

Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC 2009

They can do that because when they are very cold they are what's called superconducting wire.

Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC 2009

An example of priority-setting by public officials was the vote in the House of Representatives against further construction of the high energy accelerator known as the superconducting super collider.

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Technology developed for the Tevatron - namely superconducting, super-cooled magnets - also primed the explosion in hospital MRI machines.

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Once he isolated the ideal crystals, Tarduno used a device called a superconducting quantum interface device, or SQUID magnetometer, which is normally used to troubleshoot computer chips because it's extremely sensitive to the smallest magnetic fields.

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