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Properties of some superconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. Shoenberg
D. Shoenberg
Affiliation:
The Royal Society Mond LaboratoryCambridge
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The critical-field curves of pure aluminium, gallium, thorium and zinc were measured by a magnetic induction method. An unusually marked supercooling effect was found in aluminium and to a much smaller extent also in gallium; some experiments on this effect are discussed. The first three of these metals were found to have “ideally pure” superconducting properties, and thorium, although belonging to the “hard” group of superconductors, had a value of dHc/dT of only 190 gauss/degree K. Only a very minute fraction of the volume of a titanium specimen was found to become superconducting at temperatures down to 1° K., although Meissner had found a titanium wire to have zero resistance below 1·8° K.; an explanation of this discrepancy is put forward. Molybdenum and uranium did not become superconducting down to 0·3 and 0·98° K. respectively, though, in the case of one uranium sample, a small fraction of the volume showed superconducting effects as in titanium.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 1940 , pp. 84 - 93
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1940

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