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Could this not also have a big use case outside of superconductivity? Decellerators or accelerators for maglev trains or similar?


Oh, definintely!

Most materials are diamagnetic, but only very weakly so.

I think that a new room-temperature material that was so strongly diamagnetic that it could lift the weight of its own volume in lead probably would bring some interesting new applications.


For example, anything with a bearing in it used in an application where it's safe to have a strong permanent magnet.




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