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jcranmer on July 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK...

Actually, the 99 apparently comes from its year of discovery, 1999.

No, I don't know why it took over two decades for their discoverers to figure out it was a room-temperature superconductor.

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