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EXPERIMENTS on the relation of high frequency currents to the phenomenon of superconductivity led to work at Toronto with films of superconducting metals. The films (of tin) were produced by tinning the surface of fine wires which themselves were not superconducting: in the early experiments a coating of tin 2 × 104 cm. in thickness was wiped on constantan wire of 0.016 cm. diameter. In this way one obtains the equivalent of a thin cylinder of superconducting metal, and the resistance of the whole becomes zero below the transition temperature of the superconducting element used1.
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E. F. Burton, "Superconductivity" (University of Toronto Press, and Oxford University Press), p. 70. J. C. McLennan, NATURE, 130, 879, Dec. 10, 1932.
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BURTON, E. Supraconductivity of Films of Tin. Nature 133, 459 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133459a0
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