Friday, August 26, 2011

Finally...testing the nozzle!



A summer of developing a new design for a specialized nozzle culminated in the testing of the first actual nozzle! Garrett was very excited. I joined him at the lab where he was testing the newly designed nozzle. You will be able to see Garrett, but not the nozzle. The nozzle is very tiny, and best viewed through a microscope. The nozzle is designed to release microscopic water droplets. Each droplet contains a protein molecule that is x-rayed by a specialized laser beam--the LCLS.

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