Production of glass balloons for laser targets
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OSTI ID:6748715
An apparatus for producing small quantities of glass balloons for use as laser fusion targets is described. To produce precise quantities of the ingredients of one glass balloon, a jet of an aqueous solution of the glass constituents and a blowing agent is metered into uniformly sized drops by Rayleigh breakup. A small fraction of these uniform drops is then passed through an oven where the water is evaporated, the remaining solid material is fused into glass, and a blowing agent decomposes or water of hydration evolves as a vapor to blow the drop into a balloon. Photographs of the resulting glass balloons are presented.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6748715
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-78481-Rev.1; CONF-761108-33-Rev.1; ON: DE83002155
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Plasma physics meeting of the American Physical Society, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15 Nov 1976
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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