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Critique of the Experimental Evidence for High-Pressure Hydride Superconductivity

A skeptical analysis arguing that the magnetization, susceptibility and resistance data offered as proof of superconductivity in high-pressure hydrides do not match the signatures expected of a genuine superconducting transition. A student learns how the standard experimental probes of superconductivity are used, and contested, to adjudicate an extraordinary claim.