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Can something be both a conductor and insulator?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How Does Resistance Cause Heat?

Topological matter materials have interesting conducting and non conducting property. They can be used to build computer chips, the basis of all modern computing. One issue is that these things get hot when electrons pass through them. And so what you like is something which stays cold, which just passes the electricity through it.

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