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What is superconducting material?


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  1. The ability of certain materials to conduct electric current with virtually no resistance is known as superconductivity. This ability has interesting and potentially useful consequences. Low temperatures are required for a material to behave as a superconductor.
  2. Aluminum, niobium, magnesium diboride, cuprates such as yttrium barium copper oxide, and iron pnictides are all examples of superconductors. Only at temperatures below a certain threshold, known as the critical temperature, these materials become superconductors.

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