Explosive lens compressing an aluminum sphere - GIF

Explosive lens compressing an aluminum sphere. Implosion-type nuclear weapons use explosive lenses to compress bomb cores, allowing fissionable material to reach critical mass.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...866#post186873
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...624#post178219
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...810#post171153
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...356#post154468
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...425#post150926

Was there anything left of the sphere?

And for all you Europeans out there, that is how we convert Aluminum into Aluminium.