[Thanks to ADemocratNoMore for the heads-up!]
Posted on 01/13/2011 6:54:11 AM PST by dangerdoc
It's rare that hot booze does anything more than get you drunk, and possibly make you sick, but according to Dr. Yoshihiko Takano, the drink you're sucking on could facilitate the levitation of a train. After a party for a colleague, the Japanese scientist found that FeTe0.8S0.2 (composed of iron, tellurium, and tellurium sulfide), when soaked in warm booze overnight, shows signs of increased superconductivity -- another in a long line of liquor-enhanced discoveries that could have far reaching effects on everything from consumer electronics to public transportation. Dr. Takano decided to test the material (known to become a superconductor after soaking in water) in the leftover alcohol from the party: beer, red wine, white wine, sake, shochu, and whiskey. As it turns out, red wine has the highest superconducting volume fraction at 62.4 percent -- nearly four times higher than the ethanol-water control samples. Dr. Takano and his colleagues speculate that the ease with which wine and beer oxidize could be play a key role in the increase in superconductivity. We speculate that even a superconductor gets a little hopped up after soaking in a bottle of wine.
Have they tried wood alcohol?
Finally, A real use for booze.
Finally, A real use for booze.
The only thing that would generate more interest is if he claimed sex increased superconductivity.
Liquor is Super!
Thought you might like the subject.
Like all other discoveries, I wonder how they first discovered that soaking stuff overnight in booze helps.
Now I feel like an idiot for not having noticed.
WAKE ME WHEN THE SHUTTLE LANDS
Yea, but it just made them sick.
There will be a lot of grant requests to study this one.
That’s one way to get free booze money.
They have already proven that alchol will make a dog into a prince at your local nightclub:)
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“I wonder how they first discovered that soaking stuff overnight in booze helps.”
Works for about everything.
Got me through college.
[Thanks to ADemocratNoMore for the heads-up!]
I had a dream about this.
bflr
Me too, but it was at night, on a sandy beach with tequila, and the holding pen at San Diego jail.
No, wait...
LOL!
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