people try to give louis slotin a pass on causing the demon core to go #supercritical bc it was in the early days of understanding nuclear physics and the effects of radiation ☢️.

not me tho. mans EARNED his #DarwinAward. he literally removed the failsafes that would prevent him from dropping the reflector on the plutonium core and proped it up with a flathead screwdriver 🪛 so he could leverage it up and down.

why?

to show off.

someone told him that if he kept doing that he'd be dead in a yr!

#Supercritical #CO2 extraction of oil from Moroccan unroasted #Argan Kernels: Effects of process parameters to produce #cosmetic oil https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2022.101952 #IMBEpapers #Morocco

So that water ain't goin' anywhere because it literally has nowhere to go. This deep underground the notion of free space doesn't exist even as a theoretical concept.

If you put so much heat and pressure on water, so that it cannot remain liquid but also just doesn't have enough room to becom gaseous, it enters a so called #supercritical phase.
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