[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Physics/Engineering Question

[Paul Garmon]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:17 AM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> More relevant to this topic and to the storage of radioactive waste in
> vitreous silica, my Dad also authored the following paper. If you are very
> lucky, you might be able to find an electronic copy of it in a research
> library.
>


Wow!  Very cool! Maybe even glassy! 😂

Actually, you can find the PDF of that paper here
<https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5289026>!
  [click View Technical Report on that page]

*Effects of ionization on silicate glasses*
*By William Primak; Argonne National Laboratory.*


Paul

P.S. Had this happened around here, maybe the fused glass would have gone
to our fire museum in Boston? It's a couple of blocks down the street from
where I used to work on Congress Street in the Fort Point Channel area:

   - Boston Fire Museum
   <https://www.bostonfiremuseum.com/MissionAndHistory.html>

   [image: A picture of the front and side of the Boston Fire Museum]



On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:27 AM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Paul Garmon wrote:
> >> Actually, in this part of the video, you can see it was the top (high
> voltage) wires:
>
> That makes more sense, given the mass of sand which has been vitrified.
> Moral of the image: Stay away from downed wires!
>
> (I know the term "vitrification" because my Dad wrote a book called
> *The compacted states of vitreous silica (Studies in radiation effects in
> solids)*. He spent part of his career counting interference fringes to
> detect very small deformations of glass-like substances when they were hit
> by ionizing radiation, such as conditions expected in the observation
> windows of nuclear fusion reactors. I never understood the advanced math
> and physics he worked with, though he tried and tried to teach me.
> Different learning styles!)
>
> -- Bob Primak
>
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