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Attitudes to high-temperature superconductivity have swung from disbelief to a conviction that it occurs only 'unconventionally'. But conventional superconductivity is now reported at record high temperatures. See Letter p.73

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  1. Igor I. Mazin is at the Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375-5320, USA.,

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Mazin, I. Extraordinarily conventional. Nature 525, 40–41 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15203

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