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The Xenon Experiment

Robin Barlin: Even if you cut out all the rays coming from the outside, there are still rays coming off of us. The experiment actually happens inside this tank. When you've been banging the outside of the steel container,. The whole idea is that this water will actually filter out even more radiation. And so inside that tank of water, they put an even smaller tank of the element xenon. About a third of a ton of liquid xenon.

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