Copper Shock X-ray Movies (VIDEO)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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A sequence of X-ray diffraction images, 10 trillionths of a second apart, shows how a shock impacts the crystal structure, or lattice, of copper at the atomic scale.

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D. Milathianaki, S. Boutet, et al./SLAC Multimedia

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