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One interesting theory here is contamination. "Legitimate" labs have a higher standard of cleanness and material purity, more stable equipment etc. If the resu
by Arkhaine_kupo 3y ago
One interesting theory here is contamination. "Legitimate" labs have a higher standard of cleanness and material purity, more stable equipment etc.
If the results are to be believed the crystaline structure is hard to achieve as replacing the right parts with Cu seems borderline random.
less perfect synthesis materials (some of the unofficial institutions have even admitted to using subsitutes for some of the synthesis) so perhaps worse ovens that cannot sustain perfect temps, or substitute materials in some way help the right crystals to show up.
The original Korean lab said they only had a 10% success rate and admit the ppublished synthesis is incomplete because it is waiting full journal approval for the paper to come out.
So we should wait until we have better data, better replication and tbh a working theory of how it even works because it shows odd magnetic behaviour, whether its superconducting or not
- mort96 3y ago> and admit the ppublished synthesis is incomplete because it is waiting full journal approval for the paper to come out. Why would they have to wait for the paper to come out? Couldn't they just publish the steps in a blog post or something before the journal has approved the paper?
- lucubratory 3y agoBecause they don't want to be scooped, essentially. They want the first accepted, peer reviewed, published paper in a high profile journal about RTAPS to be their paper. I have a lot of issues with literal currency being involved in academia, industry domination and patenting and the like, but the real currency of academia is reputation. I'm not going to begrudge them that.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoOr the simpler explanation: "legit" labs are more cautious about confirming successful synthesis and any test results, to protect the reputation of the lab and parent institution.
- kraussvonespy 3y agoI'm not a chemist so this may be a dumb question, but is it possible that polymorphs are coming into play here, and the less official labs are better at contaminating the sample with the correct polymorph?
- NotSuspicious 3y agoIris was talking about how she used construction grade phosphorous which apparently is often contaminated with Sulfur.