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...Kelvin scale favored by physicists (that's a not-so-balmy -283 degreesF). That record, broken repeatedly, is now as outdated as the 19-foot pole vault, and last month the contest heated up again. First Chu announced in the journal Nature that a mercury-based compound could superconduct at 153 degreesK (-184 degreesF), a startling 20 degrees higher than the old standard. He got that result by subjecting the material to enormous pressure -- the sort that creates diamonds from carbon. Just a week later, a team of researchers in France and Russia reported in Science that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Time for a Cool Contest | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

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