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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Observations of Melting Metal at the Picosecond Scale
February 26, 2020
LIVERMORE, California, Feb. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release:

For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators have observed the shock melting and refreezing of a metal (zirconium) at the picosecond scale (trillionths of a second).

Melting and freezing are some of the most common processes but can be difficult to understand since the fundament . . .

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