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New class of high‐temperature superconductors

APR 01, 1972

In the search for high‐temperature superconductors the path led from individual elements to binary compounds, to pseudobinary compounds, and eventually to ternary compounds. At first at least one of the elements in the binary compound was superconducting. Eventually hundreds of binary compounds were found in which neither of the elements was superconducting above 1 K.

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