And with the large display, I quickly lost myself in the maze of tunnels, wondering when an enemy laser blast would come shrieking out of the darkness.

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One possibility, says Oak Ridge's Williams, is that a second laser is then used to blast off one of the fluorine atoms in the molecule.

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The laser sensor can be reset by a blast of nitrogen gas.

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