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In article <644@sask.UUCP> reid@sask.UUCP (I am NOT your Sweet Baboo) writes:
>In article <978@epimass.UUCP>, jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>
>Unfortunately, the newest superconductors are _not_ up to liquid nitrogen
>temperatures.  The best I've heard yet was 53 degrees kelvin, which is well
>below liquid nitrogen (~70 K, I can't remember exactly).
>
> - irving -

I've got an Atlanta Constitution article (3/20) that refutes that claim.
I quote:

   "   In February the key tempreture barrier fell when scientists in Houston
    and Huntsville reported the appearence of superconductivity in a new
    yttrium-based compound at tempretures only 283 degrees below zero 
    (since they didn't give a temp scale I assume it's F) nearly 40 degrees
    above the tempreture of liquid nitrogen."

They go on to say how liquid N can be cheaply manufactured (5 cents/quart)
and how the elements used in these compounds (yttrium, luteium, scandium,
barium, and calcium) can be cheaply had. Another quote

   "   A Los Alamos physicists say that anyone with the proper knowledge, $50
    of the right materials and a microwave oven could make their own."

A damn interesting concept.

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