From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.189.228 with SMTP id gl4mr27884525pac.26.1395681983346; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:26:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.243.227 with SMTP id xb3mr30672obc.17.1395681983095; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!l13no10817159iga.0!news-out.google.com!bw18ni21563qab.1!nntp.google.com!l13no10817152iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:26:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3cf99b9e-cb54-4cab-b7f6-82fe06539d88@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <3cf99b9e-cb54-4cab-b7f6-82fe06539d88@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Question: What is the link between Ada and superconductivity? From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:26:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18950 Date: 2014-03-24T10:26:22-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, March 24, 2014 9:26:36 AM UTC-7, mockturtle wrote: > Answer: Beajoulais! (seriously...) >=20 > http://m.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27664/ >=20 > It seems that in 2011 a group of Japanese researchers tried to marinate F= eTeS in different alcoholic beverages in order to make it superconductive. = It turned out that red wines work better and the best of red wines is a 20= 09 Beajoulais. According to a work of 2012, it seems that the reason is hi= gh tartaric acid concentration. >=20 > OK, nice. A question, however, remains: how did it come to their mind th= e idea of marinating FeTeS in alcohol?!? Does this result imply that if I marinate my brain in Beaujolais, the elect= rical connections will work more efficiently? I wonder if I could get a go= vernment grant to study this. -- Adam