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Contrary to the linked tweet, there's some reason to think its diagmagnetism is pretty interesting. It might be the second most diamagnetic non-superconductive material known. Why this may happen may keep condensed matter physicists entertained for a while. Very little chance of direct technologicalapplications for the foreseeable future, though.

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If this were true, would CMTC word the tweet like this:

> Enquiring minds want to know: Is diamagnetism not interesting? The answer is that NO, diamagnetism is NOT interesting, many materials (e.g. Pb, Cu, P going into LK99) are diamagnetic. It is a run of the mill property. (There are more results, but CMTC cannot divulge them yet.)

I would argue that CMTC is acting here more like a twitter drama queen than a proper scientist.

> Very little chance of direct technologicalapplications for the foreseeable future, though.

Which means it's worthless. Remember, oil was "worthless" too when it was first discovered...

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