A sample is never pure. As a result there is always a residual resistivity as one approaches the absolute zero temperature. A measure of the purest Na samples available gives a room-temperature conductivity of \sigma RT ≈ 2.0\times 107 \Omega −1m−1 and a residual conductivity at T ≲ 1K (that is T = 0 for our purposes) of \sigma 0 ≈ 5.3 \times 1010 \Omega −1m−1.