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World’s biggest and powerful X-ray laser gun unveiled in Germany

September 2 , 2017 2639 days 1941 0
  • The world’s largest and powerful X-ray laser- European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) unveiled in Hamburg, Germany.
  • The XEFL is series of 3.4-kilometer tunnels up to 38 meters underground near the city of Hamburg.
  • It has the capacity to generate extremely intense laser flashes, at a rate of 27,000 per second. It can capture images of individual atoms in a few millionths of a billionth of a second.
  • It is employed in the study of photosynthesis process by which molecules capture light and turn it into energy during photosynthesis.
  • Also, scientists will attempt to recreate the conditions deep inside the sun and produce film-like sequences of viruses and cells.

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