According to Nature, China has 18 of the top 20 universities in the world for quality chemistry research: <a href="https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/generate/chemistry/global/all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/gene...</a><p>It should be expected that most of the first replication attempts are coming out of China.
I'd love to see this demonstration include a heat lamp afterwards, and show the flake fall onto the magnet once it exceeded its transition temperature.<p>Other than this being digital or physical trickery, I'm starting to feel like it's just a matter of time, a formality, before LK-99 is confirmed to be a RT, ambient pressure superconductor. What a discovery!