The Meissner effect in a superconductor

a. is lost higher than the Curie temperature.
b. generates currents to counteract magnetic flux.
c. makes the superconductor a perfect paramagnet below the critical field level.
d. is independent of the zero resistivity property of a superconductor.
e. can remain even after the temperature goes above the transition temperature.

Because the electrical resistivity of a superconductor is zero, arbitrarily large currents generate within the superconductor to oppose any magnetic flux (up to a certain critical field) within the material. This is known as the Meissner effect.
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