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| High power magnets made out of superconducting materials such as niobium, which have very high critical fields, are used in particle accelerators such as Fermilab and CERN. Because of the properties of superconductors, these magnets are able to create the large magnetic fields required to accelerate elementary particles to close to the speed of light, using much less power than would be needed using ordinary electromagnets. Without superconductor magnets, the cost of running such facilities would be many times larger than they are, making research into the fundamental components of nature much more difficult. | ||||
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