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Revisiting old experiments

March 8, 2018 Jack Hare Leave a comment

My last blog post focused on new hardware for magnetic reconnection experiments. Since then, I’ve published two new papers using this hardware, as well as an improved version which allows us to study reconnection whilst varying the plasma density and magnetic field strength.

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Posted in: MAGPIE Filed under: ...with LASERS!, carbon, Laser cutting, pencil leads, plasma, pulsed power, turbulence

Making plasma from pencil leads

March 25, 2015 Jack Hare Leave a comment

I’ve already done some preliminary experiments on passing a large electrical current through some pencil leads to turn them into…

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Posted in: MAGPIE Filed under: carbon, experimental physics, interferometry, my work, pencil leads, plasma, supersonic, who reads all the way to the end of a list of tags

What’s in a pencil lead? (Part II)

August 20, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

My previous post achieved unprecedented popularity, probably due to a quirk of the Facebook newsfeed deciding it was high priority that…

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Posted in: MAGPIE Filed under: experimental physics, my work, no plasma :(, pencil leads, plasma

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