Mercury is not a superconductor.
However at a certain temperature is is known to have a super low resistance meaning that electricity could move much quicker ,making it a super conductor
superconductors, they have no resistance.
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Superconductors allow the train to 'float' on a layer of magnetism. Since there is no friction (as there would be with wheels on a track) - the trains can reach much higher speeds.
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Very low temperatures.
Abdul Asab has written: 'Synthesis and characterisation of new mercury-based high-temperature superconductors'
superconductors, they have no resistance.
Because at present all superconductors must be super-cooled in a coolant such as liquid nitrogen to become superconductors.
Resistance decreases with the decrease of temperature. Superconductors are made by lowering the temperature.
Because refrigerating superconductors to the cryogenic temperatures needed by current ones is expensive, severely limiting the applications they are used in.Metallic superconductors need cooling to the temperature of liquid helium.Copper oxide ceramic superconductors need cooling to the temperature of liquid nitrogen.Room temperature superconductors, if they exist, would need little or no cooling.
In a way, all currently existing superconductors are "low-temperature", but some more so than others. The traditional superconductors work up to about 20 K (or minus 253 Centigrade); more recent "high-temperature superconductors" work up to 100 K or so. 100 K is still minus 173 Centigrade, but it is much "hotter" than the traditional superconductors. The new "high-temperature" superconductors apparently work different than the old-fashioned ones; at least, the theory that explains the traditional superconductors fails to explain how the new superconductors work.
133 Kelvin, about -140 Celsius. This is the critical temperature of a mercury -based superconductor. It contains copper-oxide, a common theme, I believe, in high temperature superconductors
In superconductors, no electricity is wasted because there is no resistance to the flow of electrons. In conductors any electricity not used, is wasted.
Franklin Curtis Mason has written: 'The tunnel effect in superconductors' -- subject(s): Superconductors
Anatoli Larkin has written: 'Theory of fluctuations in superconductors' -- subject(s): Fluctuations (Physics), Superconductors
Superconductors are materials that let current or electricity pass through them. Insulators are materials that don't allow current or electricity to pass through them. Superconductors are mostly all metals. Insulators are wood, plastic, and paper.
Weonwoo Kim has written: 'Doping experiments on magnetic heavy fermion superconductors' -- subject(s): Superconductors