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Superconductivity

In Our Time: Science

CHAPTER

The Superconductor's Conductivity

When superconductivity was discovered, initially it was the properties of resistivity which were thought to be important. The electrons in a superconductor are collectively behaving in a different way. All of them together are doing something very different that you can't just understand in terms of individual electrons. It has that sense of wonder and awe-inspiring generation, I think, that we all feel. This is unpredictable at the time.

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