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Sandia's Z machine exceeds two billion Kelvins.(STRESS RELIEF)
Advanced Materials & Processes, September, 2006
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This image shows the "arcs and sparks" that travel between metal conductors of the "Z-machine" at Sandia National Labs. The Z-machine normally works like this: 20 million amps of electricity pass through a small core of vertical tungsten wires finer than human hairs. The core is about the size of a spool of thread.
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The wires dissolve instantly into a cloud of charged particles called a plasma. Temperatures of billions of degrees were reached in part by substituting steel wires in cylindrical arrays 55 to 80 ...
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