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A blinding flash turns the transparent ports white (right) as Thomas A. Leonard of Ann Arbor, a U-M doctoral candidate, presses button to vaporize a lithium wire. The resulting gas is ionized by an electrical discharge to generate a hot, high-density plasma. Scattered laser light is measured to provide information about plasma temperature and density. Leonard carries out his experiment in the Fluids Engineering building on North Campus.
A blinding flash turns the transparent ports white (right) as Thomas A. Leonard of Ann Arbor, a U-M doctoral candidate, presses button to vaporize a lithium wire. The resulting gas is ionized by an electrical discharge to generate a hot, high-density plasma. Scattered laser light is measured to provide information about plasma temperature and density. Leonard carries out his experiment in the Fluids Engineering building on North Campus.
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