Liquid helium is used widely as a coolant, in superconducting magnets, for example. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 - Information for the Public] Reference
The reason they need to be superconducting is that they have LOTS of amperage flowing through them. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Obama HSR Agenda Will Still Leave China With the Fastest Trains] Reference
They introduced a measure for the order among the electrons, which they called the superconducting order parameter. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Magnets of over 2.0 T are called superconducting magnets and should be maintained at the temperature of liquid helium. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
Suppose further that the solenoid itself is superconducting, meaning that there is no continuous energy loss owing to ohmic resistance. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
"superconducting" magnets to bend proton beams in opposite directions around the tunnel at close to the speed of light. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Was she high in that cone of superconducting cable?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Throne]
"It will still take massive superconducting coils.". From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Now get me twenty miles of the superconducting wire. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
The manufacturer certainly hadn't had superconducting wire. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
Forward had moored us to the main superconducting power cable. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
But that meant controlling the superconducting magnets better. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
This sort of superconducting wire is available commercially, Slough says. From Wordnik.com. [Plasma Bubble Designed to Protect Astronauts Going to Mars | Impact Lab] Reference
And I hate to say it, because I am for the superconducting super collider. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks In Satellite Interview W La Press] Reference
Just as interesting, there is niobium, used to make superconducting steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Taliban: World's Next Minerals Superpower] Reference
We can make superconducting electrical motors and batteries in orbit, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
Francesc Ferrer (Case) “511 KeV photons from superconducting cosmic strings”. From Wordnik.com. [A Crazy Physics Week I - The Syracuse-Cornell Joint Theory Meeting] Reference
Naturally the collectors used superconducting cables, and naturally they had failed. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
But we three came to fight war on a superconducting field, under superconducting coils. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Throne]
This releases heat, of course, causing the rest of the superconducting material to go normal. From Wordnik.com. [LHC Magnet Test Failure] Reference
On the Great Ship, normal knowledge was preserved inside laser files and superconducting baths. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
They're superconducting, and require no power input, at least not for tens of thousands of years. From Wordnik.com. [Forever Free]
The cold sector is 3.3 km long, and has over 200 of the big 2-in-1 superconducting dipole magnets in it. From Wordnik.com. [LHC: Cooler Than Outer Space] Reference
The LHC has had its first major incident, the failure of one of the 1230 main superconducting dipole magnets. From Wordnik.com. [LHC: First Magnet Failure] Reference
The web is like a superconducting magnet -- everything is pulled powerfully towards the poles, left and right. From Wordnik.com. [Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius?] Reference
The entire ring is now at superconducting temperatures, which means all magnets can in principle be energized. From Wordnik.com. [Beam Day at the LHC] Reference
This will require a huge rotating ring placed above a superconducting coil to create an intense magnetic field. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: January 2006 Archives] Reference
The superconducting super collider was defeated soundly in the House, and it's fate is in danger in the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks In Satellite Interview W La Press] Reference
"I think the" - inkth ti ti thi I kthelith - "super - conduc" - supduc con sup ducerco - "superconducting sheets -". From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
CERN used powerful superconducting magnets to force the two beams to cross, creating collisions and showers of particles. From Wordnik.com. [Atom Smasher Sets Record] Reference
Fast spinning superconducting toroids doughnut shapes produce gravitational fields so things fall through the hole faster. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
It's designed to shoot beams of protons in opposite directions through two steel pipes encased in superconducting magnets. From Wordnik.com. [Fact-Checking the Universe] Reference
And what the President has said, and as he said quite clearly yesterday, that he supports the superconducting supercollider. From Wordnik.com. [Pm Press Briefing By George Stephanopoulos] Reference
Energy -- R&D to improve the characteristics and lower the cost of superconducting materials for use in electric power lines. From Wordnik.com. [Fccset Initiatives In The Fy 1994 Budget] Reference
Cooling is an issue for certain types of electronic components, such as thermal imaging sensors and anything superconducting. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
It will take a couple months, once they start, to cool the whole machine down to superconducting temperature, about 2 degrees K. From Wordnik.com. [LHC Restart] Reference
Nearly the entire LHC machine is cold - superconducting cold - and so at long last it seems that we may soon see the first data. From Wordnik.com. [Final Pieces of the CMS Puzzle] Reference
All it needed was to be immersed in its bath of liquid helium to make the metals superconducting, and it would be ready to go to work. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
I think that we should continue to fund the superconducting supercollider because I think it's good science, even though it's expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President To The Us Chamber Of Commerce] Reference
American Superconductor, which makes superconducting wire, rose 5.85, or 22%, to 32.13, as it boosted its target for revenue and earnings. From Wordnik.com. [OfficeMax Gains 15%; Cabela's Bags Its Prey] Reference
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