3.6 billion degrees fahrenheit
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3.6 billion degrees fahrenheit
http://www.livescience.com/technolog..._sandia_z.html
One thing that puzzles scientists is that the high temperature was achieved after the plasma’s ions should have been losing energy and cooling. Also, when the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in, something that usually occurs only in nuclear reactions.
Sandia consultant Malcolm Haines theorizes that some unknown energy source is involved, which is providing the machine with an extra jolt of energy just as the plasma ions are beginning to slow down.
One thing that puzzles scientists is that the high temperature was achieved after the plasma’s ions should have been losing energy and cooling. Also, when the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in, something that usually occurs only in nuclear reactions.
Sandia consultant Malcolm Haines theorizes that some unknown energy source is involved, which is providing the machine with an extra jolt of energy just as the plasma ions are beginning to slow down.
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Re: 3.6 billion degrees fahrenheit
So, this spider web looking thing are the tungsten wires? Just curious where the measurement was taken place. do they have a self contained area. It is very interesting indeed. Scale it down and you have a lot of things that can be done with this.
edit: hear it explains that Because of the high voltage involved, the Z machine is submerged in oil and water. This image shows lightning arcs beneath the liquid surface.
http://www.livescience.com/php/multi...+Randy+Montoya
edit: hear it explains that Because of the high voltage involved, the Z machine is submerged in oil and water. This image shows lightning arcs beneath the liquid surface.
http://www.livescience.com/php/multi...+Randy+Montoya
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Re: 3.6 billion degrees fahrenheit
here's some more extreamley dated information on it.
it's also accelerated alumnium plates to 76,000 mph in one second
http://www.livescience.com/technolog...z_machine.html
/Z’s hurled plates strike a target after traveling only five millimeters, or less than a quarter-inch. The impact generates a shock wave -- in some cases, reaching 15 million times atmospheric pressure -- that passes through the target material. The waves are so powerful that they turn solids into liquids, liquids into gases, and gases into plasmas in the same way that heat melts ice to water or boils water into steam.
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Re: 3.6 billion degrees fahrenheit
I'm gonna wait for them to hit ebay before I buy one.
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Re: 3.6 billion degrees fahrenheit
just a blurb that made me go... holy ----...
Z’s hurled plates strike a target after traveling only five millimeters, or less than a quarter-inch. The impact generates a shock wave -- in some cases, reaching 15 million times atmospheric pressure -- that passes through the target material. The waves are so powerful that they turn solids into liquids, liquids into gases, and gases into plasmas in the same way that heat melts ice to water or boils water into steam.
---- i just saw you already qouted that...
damnit i thought i was going to be the cool guy for once... what the ---- you all die and go to hell... die i tell you die
Z’s hurled plates strike a target after traveling only five millimeters, or less than a quarter-inch. The impact generates a shock wave -- in some cases, reaching 15 million times atmospheric pressure -- that passes through the target material. The waves are so powerful that they turn solids into liquids, liquids into gases, and gases into plasmas in the same way that heat melts ice to water or boils water into steam.
---- i just saw you already qouted that...
damnit i thought i was going to be the cool guy for once... what the ---- you all die and go to hell... die i tell you die
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Re: 3.6 billion degrees fahrenheit
Originally Posted by licenseless
The waves are so powerful that they turn solids into liquids, liquids into gases, and gases into plasmas in the same way that heat melts ice to water or boils water into steam.
