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Wine can help keep conversation flowing at a dinner party.And now it looks like that wine may aid in materials science as well.Japanese researchers discovered that hot alcoholic beverages induce superconductivity in iron-based compounds.

在晚宴上，酒能使人侃侃而談。而現(xiàn)在來看，酒也可能在材料科學(xué)方面派上用場(chǎng)。日本研究者發(fā)現(xiàn)熱酒精飲料能誘發(fā)鐵基化合物中的超導(dǎo)性能。

These compounds can become superconducting by being exposed to oxygen, but it takes months.Scientists have been searching for a way to speed that up.

這些化合物通過接觸氧氣而帶有超導(dǎo)性，不過這需要幾個(gè)月才能實(shí)現(xiàn)?？茖W(xué)家一直在研究一種可以加速這個(gè)過程的方法。

So researchers at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science decided to test the reaction with alcohol.

所以日本國立材料科學(xué)研究所的研究員決定測(cè)試酒精的反應(yīng)。

They put samples of the compounds in red and white wines, beer, sake, shochu— another Japanese alcohol—and whiskey.There were controls of water-ethanol mixtures.

他們?cè)诩t酒、白酒、啤酒、米酒、燒酒（日本的另一種酒）和威士忌中分別加入化合物樣本。并且調(diào)配了水和乙醇的混合液作為對(duì)照，加入樣本中。

The samples were heated to 70 degrees Celcius for 24 hours.

加熱樣本24小時(shí)，溫度達(dá)到70攝氏度。

The water ethanol mixtures didn’t have much of an effect, but the drinks did induce superconductivity—red wine best of all.

水和乙醇混合液并沒有產(chǎn)生多大的效果，但這些酒精飲料卻的確能誘發(fā)超導(dǎo)性，紅酒的效果最好。

The scientists speculate there may be particular elements in red wine that are replacing elements in the iron-based compounds.

科學(xué)家推測(cè)紅酒中可能含有特殊成分，能代替鐵基化合物中的元素。

It may be that wine speeds up the supply of oxygen into the samples.

酒精可能使氧氣更快地進(jìn)入樣本中。

The researchers say the next step is to analyze the beverages to figure out just what’s inducing superconductivity.

研究者稱，下一步要對(duì)飲料進(jìn)行分析，找出是什么物質(zhì)誘發(fā)了超導(dǎo)性。

And maybe sneak a sip in the process.

而且在研究的時(shí)候喝上一小口也說不定。

—Cynthia Graber

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