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Passing from the investigation of the super-conductive state of mercury to that of the change in the resistance of various other metals when they are cooled to helium temperatures, although I hoped to find more super-conductors, I did not think it likely, judging by our experiences with gold and platinum (see Comm. N°. 119, III and Comm. N°. 120, IV of this series) that we should be able to get more than a systematic survey of different cases of additive admixture-resistance (see Comm. VII of this series § 10). Very soon, however, the surprising results with tin and lead were obtained, which we mentioned in Comm. VII § 1 and § 12.
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Kamerlingh Onnes and Bengt Beckman. Comm. No. 132c. Dec. 1912.
Comp, note 3 p. 26. Leiden. Comm. No. 119. Febr. 1911.
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Onnes, H.K. (1991). Further Experiments with liquid helium. H. On the electrical resistance etc. (continued). VIII. The sudden disappearance of the ordinary resistance of tin, and the super-conductive state of lead. In: Gavroglu, K., Goudaroulis, Y. (eds) Through Measurement to Knowledge. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 124. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2079-8_19
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