The Generation of High Pressures in Solids

1. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS WITH A FAST Z-PINCH CAPACITOR DISCHARGE: THE GENERATION OF HIGH PRESSURES IN SOLIDS Preliminary experiments are being carried out to study the application of a fast capacitor Z-pinch discharge to the generation of high magnetic fields, dense vaporized metal plasmas, and high pressures. These experiments bear on aspects of the relatively well-known exploding wire technology, although most previous efforts in that field appear to us not to have been primarily directed toward the areas of interest mentioned here.