Friday, September 18, 2009

Magnetic Gas!


MIT announced a first in the History of Mankind.

Now Li gas at low temperature and other gases have been proved to organise in ways unknown before. Applications are coming - that is good - what I find tantalising is the organizing "capacity" of inorganic matter.

Really it is not as spectacular as this picture is, all they saw is a tiny gas ball of Lithium molecules aligning with an external macroscopic magentic field. You can read the paper at the Los Alamos Electronic ArXive.

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