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Why Scientists Are Obsessed With Finding a Room-Temperature Superconductor
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So how come brittle glass is useful for fibre optic data cable? Thinness, that's why. Superconductors don't need to be thick either, because of the "super". Also, multi-strand.
That’s not necessarily the case- glass is amorphous, so there’s ways of making it flexible that won’t directly apply to crystalline materials such as ceramics immediately- it’ll take time to modify or innovate methods of making the crystals flexible.