Sugar coatings
Physicist Chad McCoy at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine loads sample coatings into holders. The coatings are made up of very thin layers of confectioners’ sugar from the grocers, burnt to a state called carbon black, interspersed between only slightly thicker layers of silica, which is the most common material on Earth, and baked. When Z fires, researchers will observe how well particular coatings protect objects stacked behind them.
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Photo by Bret Latter
Sugar coatings
Physicist Chad McCoy at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine loads sample coatings into holders. The coatings are made up of very thin layers of confectioners’ sugar from the grocers, burnt to a state called carbon black, interspersed between only slightly thicker layers of silica, which is the most common material on Earth, and baked. When Z fires, researchers will observe how well particular coatings protect objects stacked behind them.
Learn more at bit.ly/3kA1bWL
Photo by Bret Latter