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Wednesday, 02/18/2009 9:43:59 AM

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:43:59 AM

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Niobium Article

When cooled to temperatures near absolute zero, wires made from certain metal alloys, such as niobium-titanium, allow electric current to flow freely without losing heat. Wound into a coil, they become superconducting magnets, an energy-efficient technology that was already familiar to physicists. But at the time, no one in the world made superconducting coil at the scale Fermilab needed for the Tevatron, or even on the smaller scale that could benefit MRI.

Full Article below:
http://ww2.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000675