What is "superconductor"

Usage examples of "superconductor".

The discovery of relatively abundant rare earths, particularly scandium, in certain asteroids, plus the unprecedented demand for those elements for such applications as high temperature superconductors, picoaccelerators, gamma-pumped electron cascades, and other engineered ceramic molecules, put a strong economic incentive behind the project.

If the phases could somehow be driven slightly out of step in the two superconductors, the supercurrent would turn on.

Then, because of the alternating-current Josephson effect, a supercurrent starts to oscillate back and forth between the superconductors.

Without the internal armored bulkheads and cofferdams, the separate, parallel control runs, and redundant circuit breakers of military design, there was little to stop the train wreck of induced component failures, and a chain reaction of shorting, arcing superconductor rings raced through the compartment.

It is a Meissner field that allows superconductors to levitate in a magnetic field.

But other, stranger effects have been seen when manipulating superconductors, postulating other effects from Meissner fields.

I developed the room-temperature superconductors that allowed a much-improved computer to be built, and helped put it together.

Heavy power-cables snaked across open ground, some of them superconductors running from hot, crude, hastily built lasers to a Donau that steamed and boiled around them, and there were radio-wave towers whose archaic shapes hinted at the hand and mind of Tesla.

It could have easily been found in 1913, but it was considered so unlikely a possibility that no one did the experiment to test superconductor diamagnetism for another twenty years.

Go get me a plasma rifle that's been positively deadlined, a section of twelve-gauge superconductor, and a cyber-pad.

NavInt's best current guess was that they'd gone to some sort of advanced fission plant with enormously improved and/or enlarged superconductor capacitor rings to manage their energy budget.

His little team had come up with a better superconductor for an even better fusion reactor.

He was still underneath examining the superconductor linkages when his garage sales assistant, Olivia, came in.

With superconductors, however, there are no heat dissipation losses at all.

The big green-and-gold Scarret had a three-core converter cell for power, with superconductor cabling and multi-ring direct axle motors with inbuilt turning angle compensators.