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Largest Laser Shocks Diamond into Metal

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Laurel M. Sheppard

Though physicists may be jumping for joy, those who consider diamonds their best friends won't be. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have turned diamond into metal. Using the Nova laser, whose 10 beams can produce more than 30 TW, Gilbert Collins and colleagues relied on a shock compression method to perform this feat. In this method, large amounts of energy are added suddenly to a material system, creating intense sound or pressure waves that become shock waves. Shock waves then compress the material to greater pressure (millions of atmospheres), changing it to a...Read full article

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    Published: July 1999
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