Your Guide to the Best Superconducting Wines
The Best Superconducting Wines Tartaric acid in red wine is correlated with increased superconductivity. Keita Deguchi et al Red wine can efficiently turn iron compounds into superconductors, a finding Japanese researchers stumbled upon at a boozy party last year. Now they have figured out how. Tartaric acid in the wine - especially in a French Beaujolais, from the gamay grape - seems to be the culprit. Physicists at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science were experimenting with an iron compound that becomes superconductive after being soaked in liquid, and they decided to try it with beer, sake, whisky and wine. They found wine worked best, but no one could tell why. Now the team has tried it again, uncorking six different types to see which one was the most effective. They used wines made from gamay, pinot noir, merlot, carbernet sauvignon and sangiovese grapes, and it turns out the best was the...