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Grade 11Electric Current

thermal conductivity affected by electrical current.How?

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12 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Mukesh Sharma
12 Years ago
Materials that become superconductors have different thermal conductivities in the normal and the superconducting state. When in the superconducting state, starting a current larger than the critical one will drive such a material to its normal state, thereby altering its thermal conductivity.

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