superconductors (1 Viewer)

[karentao77]

There are so many answers for this question but I don't know which answer I am supposed to use.
What temperatures do superconductors work at for both types of superconductors?

 

[Forbidden.]

There's Type I & Type II superconductors.

Type I superconductors are often just metallic elements but have very low critical temperatures (about 4K)

The latter (Type II) are compounds and are usually ceramic and as a result are brittle however they have higher critical temperatures (about up to +150K). It's cheaper to use Liquid Nitrogen than liquid hydrogen so Type II superconductors are preferred in many cases.

In general, Type II superconductors have greater critical temperatures than Type I superconductors.

 

[zingerburger]

I've only heard of the one answer - superconductors work at temperatures near absolute zero i.e. about -273 degrees Celcius.

EDIT: Ahhh yes, of course. I forgot about the Type II conductors.

 

[Hallatia]

what are the implications on society if scientists are successful in making a superconductor which will work at room temperatures?

 

[chousta]

what are the implications on society if scientists are successful in making a superconductor which will work at room temperatures?

"........a world of endless possibilities....."(very cliche), but there are a vast range of implications, such as technology becoming smaller, and faster. Imagine this on computer, or more specifically in areas such as medicine.

that should get you thinking.

:wave: chousta.

 

[Hallatia]

"........a world of endless possibilities....."(very cliche), but there are a vast range of implications, such as technology becoming smaller, and faster. Imagine this on computer, or more specifically in areas such as medicine.

that should get you thinking.

:wave: chousta.

thanks, I came up with most of that, but they all seem like good things to me, I think the question refers to negative ones and I cannot see much negative there

 

[xiao1985]

expense of manufacturing it maybe?

most new technologies can be vasty expensive, therefore, it may have some social economic impacts, such as the rich gets richer, poor gets poorer

 

[Forbidden.]

"........a world of endless possibilities....."(very cliche), but there are a vast range of implications, such as technology becoming smaller, and faster. Imagine this on computer, or more specifically in areas such as medicine.

that should get you thinking.

:wave: chousta.

If Type II superconductors are already fragile (because they're mainly ceramic), imagine how motherly gentle you have to be to a new type of superconductors that would work at room temperature as their molecular structure become even more complex.

 

[Hallatia]

If Type II superconductors are already fragile (because they're mainly ceramic), imagine how motherly gentle you have to be to a new type of superconductors that would work at room temperature as their molecular structure become even more complex.

that is a good answer, thanks, I never thought about that, although I always took notice of the fragile thing