Find a way to boil water in the blink of an eye

Recently, scientists in Germany have found a way to make water reach extremely high temperatures in less than a blink of an eye.

In a recently published scientific report, researchers in Hamburg, Germany, said they had found a way to make the water molecule reach a temperature of 600 degrees Celsius in a very short time, in part. trillions seconds (1 pico seconds or 1 ps). To make it easier to imagine, if a picosecond is equal to 1 second, 1 second will last for nearly 32,000 years!

After being stimulated, water molecules will have a messy structure like this

To do this, scientists need to use a special beam, which takes an electron through a zigzag line, causing it to emit an electromagnetic wave, with frequencies up to the terahertz level.

When this electromagnetic wave collides with the water molecule, it causes the water molecule to vibrate constantly, and dramatically increase the temperature. Then, the hydrogen structure of the water molecule will be broken, it will become a chaotic structure as shown below, but still retain its density high enough to form a liquid form of water.

However, this is just a study based on theoretical developments, and simulated with supercomputers, based on just a billionth of a liter of water.

In order to really monitor the reactions in the experiment, scientists will have to use X-ray machines with ultra-short wavelengths. These facilities are in the process of being built, and perhaps by 2015, the first experiments can be carried out.