is it possible to create a gun that shoots gamma-rays?
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Yes but the range you require would not be possible. Gamma rays spread out. You cannot reflect it into a fine beam.\nSo it is very difficult. However if you invent one .I would strongly advice u not to kill all...(or for that matter any) humans using it:-)
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Heck yeah.  Carbon nanotubes are 30 times and strong as steel.  I wouldn't expect them to show up on x-ray machines or metal detectors either.  I was thinking more of a Samurai sword design.  Look luck sheathing it.
438986
magnetic accelerators are cool projects\neasy to make!\nway cool stuff for the engineer waiting in you!\ndo a yahoo search for GUASS RIFLE.\nclick the first hit!\nMy Daughter and i made one that was 37 feet long and snapped a wood plank in two!\nhave fun and keep excelling in science and math!
527009
Good job buddy, now the goverment knows you are looking for AK57s.. why dont you ask: how to build a nuclear weapon? next time.. haha
867367
A railgun consists of two parallel metal rails (hence the name) connected to an electrical power supply. When a conductive projectile is inserted between the rails (from the end connected to the power supply), it completes the circuit. Electrical current runs from the positive terminal of the power supply up the positive rail, across the projectile, and down the negative rail, back to the power supply.\n\nThis flow of current makes the railgun act like an electromagnet, creating a powerful magnetic field in the region of the rails up to the position of the projectile. In accordance with the right-hand rule, the created magnetic field circulates around each conductor. Since the current flows in opposite direction along each rail, the net magnetic field between the rails (B) is directed vertically. In combination with the current (I) flowing across the projectile, this produces a Lorentz force which accelerates the projectile along the rails. There are also forces acting on the rails attempting to push them apart, but since the rails are firmly mounted they cannot move. The projectile slides up the rails away from the end with the power supply.\nThe need for strong conductive materials with which to build the rails and projectiles; the rails need to survive the violence of an accelerating projectile, and heating due to the large currents and friction involved. The force exerted on the rails consists of a recoil force - equal and opposite to the force propelling the projectile, but along the length of the rails (which is their strongest axis) - and a sideways force caused by the rails being pushed by the magnetic field, just as the projectile is. The rails need to survive this without bending, and must be very securely mounted.
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You could make a cloud chamber. It's a chamber that's saturated with alcohol vapor so when a cosmic ray or radioactive particle enters the chamber it leaves a trail of mist like when a plane leaves a vapor trail. It does use dry ice and isopropyl alcohol though. It's kind of complicated but would be worth it in the end.
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Can you describe the gun?
644017
How about a Van De Graff Accelerator?
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There are a few items you will need:-\n1) A source of high voltage (to exicte the gas in your laser to emit photons). A readily availible item to do this would be the ballast (transformer) in a flourescent tube. This should get you up to between 700 to 1700 volts. It is preferabe if you have a supply closer to the upper end. This is dangerous so be sure to use appropriate precautions when working with high voltages.\n2) Choose the type of gas to excite. Gases to use include Carbon dioxide, helium, argon, neon, krypton - depending on the frequency you want from the laser. A nice big ruby could be used to make a really cool ruby laser - I could never afford to buy one though.\n3) build a laser tube - or better buy one from ebay. If you have glass blowing skills and make can make your own electrodes and embed them in the glass tube and make partial reflective mirrors on the end or the tube you can make one - but it's really tricky.\n4) fill your lser tube with the gas/gases you choose under reduced pressure.\n5) connect the electrodes to your power supply\n6) power it up....\nIt's as easy as that... uses the same basic principle to a flourescent tube, except that all the light from the partial reflector window is in phase.\n\nFor more detail I suggest you google something like "home made laser"
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Hmmm...alpha rays are helium nuclei (two protons and two neutrons, all tightly bound) and gamma rays are photons of very high energy. \n\nYou can't control the the output from anything radioactive, so I guess you'll have to crank up your particle accelerator.\n\nAdded:\nDrat! Useless Troll has a better answer!
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An induction coil liberates only very high voltages- high voltage electricty does not in itself stimulate the emission of any type of radiation. Hoever if you use that high voltage to produce beams of high energy electrons you can start doing damage- A simple x ray generator would consist of a high voltage supply which would accelerate electrons to a high velocity- this electron beam would be further focused by secondary electromagnets and strike a metal target, x rays will be produced at the target as a result of the high velocity electrons striking the target.\nThis is all pretty simple stuff and can be done (with some skill in a home laboratory) My advice however is DONT- you will probably fry yourself!!
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If you could get one down there, it would likely melt before detonation. If you could solve that problem, then the result MIGHT depend on the yield of the weapon... but it would have to be a few million times stronger than today's strongest weapons, since the immense molten iron core of the earth handles pressures and forces far in excess of anything we will ever experience, and probably stronger than anything we could ever create in the next five thousand years. Nukes are only scary for fragile surface creatures in a relatively tiny area, not for fiery iron spheres that are the size of the moon.
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The neutron bomb, or "enhanced radiation warhead" as it is called in scientific circles, is basically a hydrogen bomb without the uranium-238 jacket which would absorb neutrons to increase the blast. By eliminating that jacket the full fusion emission of neutrons is released. A one-kiloton neutron bomb will spread a lethal dose of neutron radiation to exposed people over a one-mile radius. It would take a 13-kiloton fission (atom) bomb to produce a combined lethal dose of neutron and gamma radiation over that same distance.[3] Although the lethal radius for people inside tanks would be somewhat less because of the protection, pure neutron radiation is more penetrating than a mixture of neutron and gamma, and the lethal radius would be greater for a one-kiloton neutron bomb than for a 13- kiloton fission warhead. But the radius of destruction from blast and heat would be considerably less for the former. Neutron warheads are now in production for the Lance missile and the eight-inch artillery shell. Soon they will be available as projectiles for the more numerous 155-millimeter cannons. \nAnd, yes, there have been tactical nuclear warheads on artillery shells for decades now.
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As a practical matter, it is impossible.  If the model is the size of a basketball, the nucleus would be a point in the center too small to see, and the electrons would be modeled as fog of various concentrations depending on position.  This applies to all elements, not just krypton.
473651
Why didn't you say so!! Monsters in Alaska need to be shot with a microwave ray gun.  The cheese will go good on toast.
967545
Theoritically, everything is possible!!\nIn my openion it might be possible after knowing the chemical compositions of the curry and design a gun accordingly (curry gun). \nBut I don't think it would work as a replecement of the current gun powder becasue you won't get enough gas pressure to propel the bullet.
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shoot it with an air self gun\n\nhave fun