Like two superheroes finally joining forces, Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine—generator of the world’s most powerful electrical pulses—and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility—the planet’s most energetic laser source—in a series of 10 experiments have detailed the responses of gold and platinum at pressures so extreme that their atomic structures momentarily distorted like images in a fun-house mirror.
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Source: Phys.org