What Is a Superconductor?

A Korean team published a paper basically sort of Incinuating that they had produced some material which could be construed as like a room temperature Semi-conductor. A superconductor is something where electrical charge flows through it pretty easily And then you have materials that are insulators and they resist the sort of flow of electrical charge metals tend to be good at this Like a lot of our wire is copper You know electrons can flow through these types of substances really easily and they're really good at conducting electricity. But one of the problems you have when electricity flows through wires as you encounter something called resistancelike you electrons Don't flow through smoothly they bump into each other, you know They lose energy and

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