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Z machine melts diamond to puddle
Posted on Saturday, November 04, 2006 @ 11:09:46 UTC by vlad

General Sandia’s Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.

The object of the experiment was to better understand the characteristics of diamond under the extreme pressure it would face when used as a capsule for a BB- sized pellet intended to fuel a nuclear fusion reaction.

The experiment is another step in the drive to release enough energy from fused atoms to create unlimited electrical power for humanity. Control of this process has been sought for 50 years.


Half a bathtub full of seawater in a fusion reaction could produce as much energy as 40 train cars of coal.

Results of the fusion reaction also will be used to validate physics models in computer simulations used to certify the safety and reliability of the US nuclear weapons stockpile.

The problem for two giant machines that would use this method — the National Ignition Facility in Lawrence Livermore National Lab, which asked for the experiment, and Sandia’s Z machine — is that the outer shell of the pellet must transmit pressure evenly into its interior. Diamond as a solid will do that. Diamond as a liquid will do that. But diamond that is partially both and exists between 6.9 million atmospheres and 10.4 million atmospheres provides uneven pressures. This in-between phase would create instabilities that would ruin the implosion, like a hand squeezing a water balloon that allows portions of the balloon to exit through spaces between the fingers.

So, if diamond is used as a capsule, the energies involved must be tailored to avoid landing in this zone.

Why use diamond at all? It was hoped that diamond would help smooth out the applied pressure loads and keep the capsule implosion symmetric.

Wouldn’t a more flexible material like vinyl be better?

“At the pressures we’re interested in, everything is compressible,” said capsule designer Mark Herrmann, a Sandia researcher.

Because of limited time to run the experiments, due to the shutdown of Z for renovations that should increase its power by 30 percent, Sandia lead experimenter Marcus Knudson found a predictive use of a quantum-molecular simulation program developed at Sandia by Mike Desjarlais very helpful in pinpointing the pressures at which diamond would begin and finish liquefying.

In the experiments, the applied pressure came from shock waves passing through the diamond. The waves were created by impacting the diamond with tiny plates hurled using Z’s huge magnetic fields at about 20 times the speed of a rifle bullet.

The results were the subject of an invited talk given this week at the American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics in Philadelphia.

Source: Sandia National Laboratories
Via: http://www.physorg.com/news81711381.html

 
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Re: Z machine melts diamond to puddle (Score: 1)
by techmac on Saturday, November 04, 2006 @ 13:36:33 UTC
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With the advent of successful magnetic power experiments, the theories propounded to lead to successful fusion power are just academics.
Of course anything is possible. Fusion might someday, after it produces its first watt of overunity power, leapfrog into a mighty, powerful source of energy.



Re: Z machine melts diamond to puddle (Score: 1)
by Bubbles on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 @ 12:43:22 UTC
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Having a hard time visualizing a diamond puddle.  A picture would be nice.  Is it black like wet, dirty coal slurry?  Or shiny?



Re: Z machine melts diamond to puddle (Score: 1)
by xela26 on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 @ 05:30:52 UTC
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There is no way that a diamond can melts into puddle. can you show some proof? that would be interesting.

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