originally posted by: ctj83
a reply to: zeroPointOneQ
Could any of these be options?
Soviets got a remote-controlled vehicle to the edge of the base, the intention being to fire huge amounts of ELF to trigger a criticality event and
get CND up in arms about the base?
Kyrpton gas combined with radar created some dangerous weather phenomenon?
Hi ctj83. I find your question in reference to Krypton interesting only as 'Krypton, like the other noble gases, is used in lighting and photography.
Krypton light has many spectral lines, and krypton plasma is useful in bright, high-powered gas lasers (krypton ion and excimer lasers), each of which
resonates and amplifies a single spectral line. Krypton fluoride also makes a useful laser.'
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The excimer laser was invented in 1970[1] by Nikolai Basov, V. A. Danilychev and Yu. M. Popov, at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, using a
xenon dimer (Xe2) excited by an electron beam to give stimulated emission at 172 nm wavelength. A later improvement, developed by many groups in 1975
was the use of noble gas halides (originally XeBr).
These groups include the Avco Everett Research Laboratory,[3] Sandia Laboratories,[4] the Northrop Research and Technology Center,[5] and the United
States Government's Naval Research Laboratory[6] who also developed a XeCl Laser[7] that was excited using a microwave discharge.
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Xenon monochloride (XeCl) is an excimer which is used in excimer lasers emitting near ultraviolet light at 308 nm. It is most commonly used in
medicine. It was used to produce a body image from the Shroud of Turin.[1]
The results suggest that a directional burst of ultraviolet radiation may have played a role in the formation of the image on the Shroud.[1]
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(Would or could shadows seen above John as reported by Bustinza have anything to do with black body radiation? Almost like a separation between body,
and body radiation? Or the separation of Aura from the body? )
What is meant by the phrase “black body” radiation? The point is that the radiation from a heated body depends to some extent on the body being
heated. To see this most easily, let’s back up momentarily and consider how different materials absorb radiation.
In fact, we can be much more precise: a body emits radiation at a given temperature and frequency exactly as well as it absorbs the same radiation.
This was proved by Kirchhoff: the essential point is that if we suppose a particular body can absorb better than it emits, then in a room full of
objects all at the same temperature, it will absorb radiation from the other bodies better than it radiates energy back to them. This means it will
get hotter, and the rest of the room will grow colder, contradicting the second law of thermodynamics. (We could use such a body to construct a heat
engine extracting work as the room grows colder and colder!)
But a metal glows when it’s heated up enough: why is that? As the temperature is raised, the lattice of atoms vibrates more and more, these
vibrations scatter and accelerate the electrons. Even glass glows at high enough temperatures, as the electrons are loosened and vibrate.
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