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While this seems... interesting... Isn't it actually safer and easier to cool something to 2°K than to pressurize to 36,000,000 psi
by berbec 7y ago
While this seems... interesting... Isn't it actually safer and easier to cool something to 2°K than to pressurize to 36,000,000 psi
- brohee 7y agoThe huge pressure would only be needed during manufacturing no?
- itcrowd 7y agoThe linked article is a bit ambiguous about it, I think, but the abstract [1] is clear: the pressure must be applied for the material to be superconducting: > Here, we identify an alternative clathrate structure in ternary Li2MgH16 with a remarkably high estimated Tc of ∼473 K at 250 GPa [...] [1] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.097001 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
- rcxdude 7y agoFrom a safety point of view, it depends on how compressible it is. A very stiff material under high pressure still isn't going to release much energy when the pressure gets released because it doesn't move by very much. (This is why pressurised air becomes dangerous at much lower pressures than pressurised water)