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Science 21 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5772, pp. 373 - 374
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125514
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CHEMISTRY:
The First Femtosecond in the Life of a Chemical Reaction

Philip H. Bucksbaum

Bombardment of reactants with high-order harmonics of a laser reveals the earliest stages of chemical reactions, which occur faster than a single cycle of visible light.

The author is in the Photon Sciences Division, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. E-mail: phb{at}slac.stanford.edu

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