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The authors are grateful to T. Timusk and P. Roy for providing the raw data and additional information and for helpful discussions. F.M. was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and by an MIF from the Province of Alberta.
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Hirsch, J.E., Marsiglio, F. Absence of evidence of superconductivity in sulfur hydride in optical reflectance experiments. Nat. Phys. 18, 1033–1035 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01693-x
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