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What Do You Need to Make Cold Atoms? Part 1: Vacuum Hardware

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 12, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 11:32
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Chad Orzel tackles a reader question on how to do cold atoms experiments so he engages in some 'lab porn' (hey, his words, not mine) with pics and all, at least of the vacuum apparatus.  You'll have to check back for more details.


Doomsday machine?  He assures us it is not.

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