How to Use superconductor in a Sentence

superconductor

noun

• That was a record high temperature for a superconductor at the time.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the 1960s researchers first calculated that the metallic form of this element might be a superconductor.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• The new room temperature superconductor only works at a pressure equivalent to about three-quarters of that at the center of Earth.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2020
• In the ‘70s, scientists observed that magnetic flux around a tiny doughnut of a superconductor behaved this way.
  — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
• In order to understand even a tiny fleck of a superconductor, theorists would need to grasp the behavior of electron swarms numbering in the trillions.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• No one has ever made a topological superconductor, at least not for sure.
  — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
• The ore contains the rare-earth metal niobium, which is used in steel production and becomes a superconductor when cooled to low temperatures.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2023
• The next big step — one that remains to be taken — is to create a room temperature superconductor without these extreme pressures.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Two weeks ago, in a pair of draft papers that have not been peer-reviewed, scientists in South Korea claimed to have found a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor, and described how to make it.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2023
• Fulfilling a decades-old quest, this week researchers report creating the first superconductor that does not have to be cooled for its electrical resistance to vanish.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2020
• The centerpiece material in the present research—the putative 10 kilobar superconductor—is sure to be the subject of a flurry of both controversy and at least short-term interest.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• This avoids the complex machinery needed to cool superconductors in each vehicle.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
• Crucially, when this happens, the resistance along the length of the material drops to zero, and the electrons travel around the edges without losing any energy, achieving an effect similar to that of a superconductor.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2023
• That’s a rather impressive feat considering all the supply chain issues, particularly the superconductor chip shortage, that have struck the auto industry over the last year.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2021
• But the low temperatures required mean that superconductors can only be used in specialized settings.
  — Will Henshall, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Trapped between two opposing forces, the magnet levitates above the superconductor.
  — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• The most time-consuming part is superconductor magnet-training.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
• There are other superconductors used today in quantum computers and MRI machines.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023
• For decades, scientists have sought superconductors that work at room temperatures.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• At present, the ‘hottest’ superconductor of any kind is considered to be lanthanum decahydride, a member of the super-hydride class that is proven to be a high-pressure, conventional superconductor at temperatures of up to at least 250 kelvin.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, accusations of research misconduct have swirled around Dr. Dias, and his superconductor findings remain largely unconfirmed.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Familiar metals like tin and mercury become superconductors only when chilled to within a few degrees of absolute zero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• As a result, this material should be accessible to a lot more labs than could work on hydrogen-rich superconductors previously.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
• Scientists have been studying superconductors for more than a century.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• Most superconductors have to be chilled to ultracold temperatures, which limits their practical use.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Before the advent of the recent room temperature, high-pressure superconductors, there was a whole family called high-TC superconductors.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2024
• But physicists urged caution: Previous claims of room-temperature superconductors haven’t panned out.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2023
• For the past two weeks, superconductor labs around the world have rushed to create LK-99, a new material that South Korean scientists claimed was a room-temperature and ambient-pressure superconductor.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• This circuit could be etched into a silicon microchip, that when cooled to near absolute zero, becomes a hyperfast, almost lossless superconductor.
  — David Lumb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
• Basically, a superconductor is a type of material with a special property: Electric current passes through it with zero resistance, meaning no energy gets lost along the way.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024