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To: saganite
nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation... Let me guess. "Extreme UV" means beyond the visible spectrum? In other words, this stuff isn't transparent at all? Kinda like 0bammy and company?
44 posted on 07/27/2009 11:46:51 AM PDT by bobsatwork
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To: bobsatwork

If you will indulge me for a second, I’ll explain a bit further.

Some glasses (Magnesium fluoride, Calcium fluoride, fused silica) are transparent in what we call vacuum ultraviolet wavelengths (~120-300 nm, where visible light is 400-700 nm).

The region from 10-100 nm is known as extreme ultraviolet (EUV), where nothing transmits, and few materials even reflect with optical quality.

Once you get to shorter wavelengths, you get into the x-ray region, where materials again become transparent. So anything that is transparent at all in the EUV is a big discovery.

MD, who builds EUV cameras for a living


85 posted on 08/10/2009 9:56:58 AM PDT by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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