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What is the suprising thing that happens in a superconductor

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One of the most surprising things about a superconductor is that
it has NO electrical resistance. The resistance doesn't just become
very very very small. It becomes literally completely zero. (This is
a big part of the reason why it's called a "super-conductor".)

If you start an electric current flowing in a superconductor, you can
connect the ends of it together, and the current keeps going around
and around the loop and never dies out !
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