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How a retractable plasma blade pushed engineering past its limits

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma ...
The Fabricator

Oxyfuel: The cutting tool every shop should have at the ready

There's basically one: if you're cutting thick steel plate—not aluminum, not stainless. You need a ferrous material or else ...
Cutting Tool Engineering

Plasma cutters with ‘revolutionary’ consumables and torch design

The Cutmaster X 90 and Cutmaster X 110 from Thermal Dynamics, an ESAB brand, feature a new arc starting mechanism that the ...
IEEE

Influence of Ambient-Air Nitrogen on the Argon Plasma Generated by a TIAGO Torch Open to Atmosphere

Abstract: Microwave-torch plasmas sustained in easy-to-ionize gases such as argon are strongly affected by the presence of nitrogen when emerging into ambient air. Examination of pictures of their ...
IEEE

An Alternative Implementation of Multivariate-Teaching-Based Transformer for High-Power Microwave Problems With Plasma Array

Abstract: High-power microwave (HPM) protection for military weaponry demands exceptional sensitivity and reliability. Columnar plasma array (CPA), reflected by adaptable electromagnetic properties ...