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HN refuses to believe reputable research institute disproves superconductivity of LK99, mostly based on tone and the fact that prediction markets haven't crashed to zero (news.ycombinator.com)

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[–] pja@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This Twitter post from the guy who was synthesising the stuff in the US seems convincing: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1689476909208600576

Not a superconductor - the hints of superconductor-like properties were due to a combination of iron contamination in the Pb forming iron fragments which (surprise!) show ferromagnetism & Copper Sulphide which shows a very similarly anomalous temp/resistivity profile (but is not a superconductor).

The most likely outcome (i.e., not a superconductor, lab error due to honest scientists being fooled by their own experiments) seems to be probably the true one.