
EXTREMELY RARE Superconductor Copper Niobium Metal Alloy (Honeycomb Elliptic Pattern) from the ex-Texas Superconducting Super Collider / DESERTRON
* EXTREMELY RARE PREMIUM raw metal alloy material (Honeycomb Elliptic pattern) for knife bolsters, jewelry, ornaments, etc... see pictures how to anodize it. * 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 Ti/Nb alloy rods 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 until it's 3/32" thick 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. It was drawn down to a little under 1/3 it's starting size before the whole