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EXTREMELY RARE Superconductor Copper Niobium Metal Alloy (Stripe Block) from the ex-Texas Superconducting Super Collider / DESERTRON

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EXTREMELY RARE Superconductor Copper Niobium Metal Alloy (Stripe Block) from the ex-Texas Superconducting Super Collider / DESERTRON* SOLD OUT * EXTREMELY RARE PREMIUM raw metal alloy material for knife bolsters, jewelry, ornaments, etc * Cut from the sample runs of the main conductor rods of the ex Texas Superconducting Super Collider a. k. a Desertron that was started years ago. The project was scrapped due to budget cuts. (WIKI: https: en. wikipedia. org wiki Superconducting_Super_Collider). * This is a piece of Titanium Niobium superconductor preform. It starts it's life as a

* SOLD OUT

* EXTREMELY RARE PREMIUM raw metal alloy material for knife bolsters, jewelry, ornaments, etc...

* Cut from the sample runs of the main conductor rods of the ex-Texas Superconducting Super Collider a.k.a Desertron that was started years ago. The project was scrapped due to budget cuts. (WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider).

* This is a piece of Titanium Niobium superconductor preform. It starts it's life as a huge copper block with hundreds of holes drilled into it. Into those holes twisted niobium-titanium filaments are inserted. The whole block is then plasma welded in a vacuum until it's a solid billet, then it's taken to a drawing machine where it's slowly drawn down into wire, which is wound into the magnetic coils for the containment magnets. This piece here would be what is considered "preform" or half made wire.

* Wire EDM cut. The item will be sent in un-polished condition.

* Free shipping USPS Priority mail and insured. For international purchase/shipping, pls contact us.
 
* Pattern: Stripe Block

* Composition: Niobium/Titanium alloy rods bundled in copper.


About SSC:
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a federally financed project abandoned in 1993 that would have been capable of accelerating subatomic particles to energy levels forty times that previously achieved by researchers. For reasons of national prestige and international economic competitiveness, the Ronald Reagan administration in 1982 encouraged U.S. high-energy scientists to devise a challenging national accelerator project. Physicists responded with plans for the most ambitious particle accelerator ever attempted, a superconducting super collider. It was to be a proton collider far more energetic than existing ones, employing the superconducting magnetic technology recently developed at the Fermi National Laboratory in Illinois. The primary justification for the machine was a search for particles known as Higgs bosons. The machine was to produce forty TeV protons (where one TeV, or tera-electron volt, is 1 trillion electron volts). This determined the size (a fifty-four-mile-long ring) and the projected cost ($4.4 billion). Federal funding for the machine required justification. Support from the Texas congressional delegation and the promise of $1 billion toward the project from the state of Texas led to the decision to build the accelerator in Waxahachie, Texas, rather than near Fermilab. In the autumn of 1993 the House of Representatives, faced with a more than doubled price tag, voted overwhelmingly to kill the project. By then $2 billion had been spent, the superconducting magnets had been tested, one-third of the ring had been excavated, and two teams of a thousand physicists and engineers from around the world were working out detailed designs of the two enormous particle detectors to observe and analyze proton collisions in the TeV energy range. (Cited from Answers.com)
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★★★★★ 4
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I slept on it last night and I do think I’ll like it. I was used to a memory foam pillow, son this will be a change. My reason for 4 stars is because the zipper barely opens and my husband and I tried everything short of ruining the pillow. In the end I had to stuff extra stuffing into a pretty small hole. Nothing seems wrong with the zipper but I saw another review said they couldn’t add more filling. If they fix that issue then I’d rate it 5. Yes it is soft but it doesn’t go flat and if you adjust and add some more under your head it doesn’t shift. I do recommend if you like a plush pillow.
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Rose Mueller
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★★★★★ 5
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Very well done and easy to use. I love being able to adjust the filling, and the ability to clean it.
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NWGale
Massapequa, US
★★★★★ 5
excellent medium consistency pillow
Fill Material: Down Alternative, Size: Queen/Standard Size
Pillow is medium firmness with extremely uniform compression consistency. i have a very particular desire for something not too hard or too soft and this is the sweet spot... more stuffing is provided so you can add (or remove) some if needed to get what you like...i didnt need to but liked to have that option. also the feel of the cover is nice.
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Lisa427
Houston, US
★★★★★ 5
Immediately yes
Fill Material: Down Alternative, Size: King Size
I’m 50 and peri has been kicking my butt lately, so temperature management of my head (as that is the only thing effected by my hot flashes) has been an ever pressing project that I’ve been managing for the last 3-4 years. Hot sleeping has always been one of my curses, so adding perimenopause to the mix has been my own special hell. But Dyson fans, keeping the bedroom window cracked, and lots of all cotton gauze blankets have been imperative for me in the night. Pillows have always been pillowing, they just get warm and flipping them all night long is just finding the least hot version. I even keep 2 pillow choices on the bed while I sleep, and 2 more an arm’s length away on the chest at the bottom of the bed. Silk pillowcases are great for my hair and skin but they don’t keep cool. THESE PILLOWS, complete with the Beckham cooling pillowcases are chef's kiss. They feel like they’ve been in the fridge. Literally. Now do they stay that way, of course not. But they’re cool enough for me to fall asleep. And if I wake, I use the other side. And if I keep another on standby, I am literally finding the cool side of the pillow all night long. I’m not exaggerating either. These pillows are cool WITH the cooling pillowcases. You can’t use a pillow protector though, even if it’s cotton. It will ruin the effect. And you must use the cooling pillowcases. Do both, and you won’t be disappointed.
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Charlottesville, US
★★★★★ 1
Terrible update to a good pillow
Fill Material: Down Alternative, Size: Queen/Standard Size
Purchased this as I was looking to replace tbe previous Beckham hotel pillows I had purchased before. When I saw "newer model available" I ordered it. Wish I had just ordered the same ones as before. First off this was only 1 pillow, not the 2 pack. Since I was only replacing 1 pillow I decided to use it. Huge mistake, my neck has been sore almost everyday. The support of this pillow is terrible, even with trying to added and remove some fill to adjust it. Nothing seems to make a difference. Avoid it and order a different model. Wish I had sent it back for a refund when I got it.
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