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- noun uncountable The condition of being
supersolid . - noun countable The extent to which something is supersolid.
Etymologies
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ZephirAWT: is a supersolidity, which can be observed when cold snow crackles and crunches under your ...
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Networks of plunder: Archaeologists tracing the labyrinth of antiquities trafficking hope to shut it down, or at least slow it up Trapped in a surfboard-shaped formation, ultracold rubidium atoms self-organize into a regular crystal pattern (seen more clearly at right), one of the hallmarks of supersolidity.
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As the theoreticians Svistunov and Prokofiev explain, supersolidity is somewhat analogous to superconductivity, which is the total lack of electrical resistance that occurs in metals held at very low temperatures.
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Svistunov says, "We now know for sure that supersolidity does exist in helium 4, although in a form very different from what was expected in the original theoretical work, and with side effects going far beyond mere super transport."
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Svistunov says, "We now know for sure that supersolidity does exist in helium 4, although in a form very different from what was expected in the original theoretical work, and with side effects going far beyond mere super transport."
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This same "superflow," or supersolidity, was first predicted to occur in a non-metal solid in 1969 by several prominent theoretical physicists who said a solid also should conduct its own atoms without friction when held at sufficiently low temperatures.
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