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Burning Water Is Not the Same as Seeing It thumbnail Aug 27 7:35 PM #236 4 min

Burning Water Is Not the Same as Seeing It

Flame Spectroscopy — Elemental Emission Analysis

Burning your water reveals what's in it. Photographing that revelation is another problem entirely.

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Twenty-Three Where Fifty-Three Appeared thumbnail Jun 30 8:49 PM #180 6 min

Twenty-Three Where Fifty-Three Appeared

Thermal Expansion Interferometry

Counted fringes to nanometre precision. Aluminum's expansion coefficient: 53 where it should be 23. The bench was expanding too.

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Twenty Grooves Where Two Thousand Should Be thumbnail Jun 28 4:28 AM #178 6 min

Twenty Grooves Where Two Thousand Should Be

Diffraction Grating Ruling

Commercial gratings cost $347. Ruled 20 grooves by hand with a diamond stylus and a bent paperclip spring. Only 7,480 grooves to go.

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Two Yellow Lines Three Metres Apart thumbnail Jun 25 7:49 PM #174 5 min

Two Yellow Lines Three Metres Apart

Prism Spectroscopy

Two yellow lines where I expected one blob. Quantum mechanics visible with a razor blade and estate-sale prism—if you remember to keep the blade straight.

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