A copper wire thinner than a human hair sat inside one of the most powerful X-ray facilities on Earth. Then a laser hit it, and for roughly 2.5 trillionths of a second, each copper atom lost 22 of its ...
Copper blasted into a million-degree plasma strips away 22 electrons in a flash before atoms recover
When laser flashes hit matter, electrons are knocked off their orbits around the atomic nuclei. This can generate extremely hot plasmas composed of charged particles—ions and electrons. Researchers at ...
When laser flashes hit matter, electrons are knocked off their orbits around the atomic nuclei. This can generate extremely hot plasmas composed of charged particles – ions and electrons. As they ...
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