Superconductors are materials which when cooled to a critical temperature, conduct electricity without any resistance. Such materials are essential in applications such as MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machines, mass spectrometers to measure the mass-to-charge
Superconductors are materials which when cooled to a critical temperature, conduct electricity without any resistance. Such materials are essential in applications such as MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machines, mass spectrometers to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of molecules and particle accelerators. Superconductivity rarely occurs naturally on Earth as materials on Earth do not exist in their pure phase. However, instead of designing superconductors in a lab, we can find them elsewhere as well.
Superconducting alloys have been discovered in two meteorites. According to James Wampler, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego in the US, meteorites are promising places to look for unusual materials in general since they are formed under very extreme conditions that can not be r