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Tc

1 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. technetium.


TC 2 American  
  1. Teachers College.

  2. Trusteeship Council (of the United Nations).


Tc 1 British  

symbol

  1. technetium

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TC 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. twin carburettors

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tc 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Turks and Caicos Islands

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The group of Stefan Raunser, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, has now elucidated a so-far enigmatic, exceptional secretion mechanism, that allows the release of the gigantic Tc toxins.

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That was nowhere near room temperature, but warmer than the Tc for most superconducting materials.

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In Dias’s Nature paper, CSH’s AC susceptibility dropped sharply at Tc, consistent with the interpretation that the material was expelling magnetic fields.

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Over the next 3 years, Eremets and others boosted the Tc as high as 250 K in hydrides containing the heavy metal lanthanum.

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Dias and his colleagues thought they could push the Tc up even higher by adding a third element: carbon, which forms strong bonds with neighboring atoms.

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