Meissner effect or bust. Day 2
An absolute emotional rollercoaster. We've been back so many times, I've lost count
The first reaction to make Lanarkite (PbO + PbSO4) is running in the furnace! We opted to do 80% in an open air alumina crucible and 20% in a sealed quartz tube
PbO + PbSO4 from Sigma. Thanks for the fast shipping!
Take it to a very fine powder. A little bit of clumping.
This was a great test run of the quartz vacuum sealing rig. We were at 3e-3torr when we sealed off. It went smoothly enough for a first effort. I gave it 5min at vacuum to flash off any moisture in the powder.
Oxy torch. Notice the tube collapses and pinches off due to internal vacuum.
Safely in the oven. As requested, we're doing a live stream. It's bring your own audio.
https://t.co/Uqkf2g1PbPtwitch.tv/andrewmccalip
For 5 minutes before the wifi went down, we were top ten on Twitch with 16,000 viewers.
Please follow @zebulgar. We need to help him boost his metrics. Can't monetize until 15mil views.
DAQ says we've been holding steady all night. Surpringly low ripple on the furnace. For the nerds out there, the stack is Codesys, Ethercat, Beckhoff, OPAUA, Docker, Influx, Grafana.
Livestream going down for a few hours. The engineer needed his laptop back.....
Copper phosphide stuck in customs in Poland
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