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Superconductivity

Mercury’s superconductivity explained at long last

19 Dec 2022 Isabelle Dumé
A droplet of superconducting mercury levitating above a surface
Courtesy: Gianni Profeta and Cesare Tresca/University of L’Aquila
More than 100 years ago, the physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that solid mercury acts as

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Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World
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