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Way-too-slow phaser beam
« on: December 30, 2020, 02:56:06 pm »


Looks like it melts the surface, but doesn't vaporize it (the armor is glowing, but not steaming). Steel glows yellow-white at about 1200C. [1] Therefore, the energy required is about 90J. [2] This assumes 100% of the phaser's energy is going to the armor, but this is clearly not the case. So the beam has a yield range of about 80-200J.
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[1]:
Red heat - Wikipedia
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[2]: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120720234110AAmPemy (It gives numbers for iron, not steel, but that's close enough.)
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