X-Ray Laser Turns Up the Heat to 3.6 Million Degrees, page

An x-ray laser fired at a sample of aluminum has generated temperatures of 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit — hotter than the sun’s corona.

I'm going to fry the earth to the size of a small prune if you don't give me 1 million dollars

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If you want something to cook an airborne target, use an MTHEL (Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser). If however you want to do some serious science, then I cannot think of a more worthy past time than using a friggin huge laser like this one to create plasmas of this type.... I have to say, I am impressed, although I am also curious to know how careful they had to be when containing such a strong source of heat. I mean that temperature is pretty much beyond the melting point of EVERYTHING that I can think of, so I am very curious as to how it was all held in place during the experiment.

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