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How water and sand cut through solid titanium

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Simple water becomes a deadly precision cutting laser if you mix it with dirt and shoot it fast enough. By pressurizing liquid to over sixty thousand pounds per square inch and introducing crushed garnet sand, the resulting microscopic erosion beam can seamlessly carve through solid titanium blocks without generating any heat.

How water and sand cut through solid titanium
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