Cern Keyring Super Conductor
The metal inside is a Niob-Titan mixture, capable of 17000(!) amperes in a nominal
magnetic field of 8.3 teslas at the ATLAS detector at the LHC accelerator in CERN.
If there is no magnetic field, it can hold 50000(!) amperes, given a temperature
of 1.7 kelvin.
Each round "silver" conductor you can see in the image below consists of
6500(!) 6(!) micrometer(!) strands which is embedded in copper.
The metail embedded in this keyring is used for the electro-magnets for the
ATLAS detector at the LHC/CERN.
Last-Modified: Fri, 02 May 2008 19:23:54 GMT
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