Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Magnesium lasering

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Magnesium lasering is the

laser beam
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History

The earliest known usage of magnesium lasering was in 1933 when laboratory chemist Dr. Herman Wakefield was experimenting with the chemical element of magnesium at the University of Oxford. By accident, he discovered that after he had added a small quantity of metals to a non-reactant liquid solution, faint blue light could be visible in magnesium particles.

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