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The phenomenon called superconductivity was observed more than a century ago by Kamerlingh Onnes when he cooled down the mercury and observed the abrupt decrease of its resistivity.

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Uykur, E. (2015). Introduction. In: Pseudogap and Precursor Superconductivity Study of Zn doped YBCO. Springer Theses. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55510-0_1

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