According to a report by the South China Morning Post, Chinese scientists have prepared a highly heat resistant ceramic by combining four metals Hafnium, Tantalum, Zirconium and Tungson. This material remains stable even in excessive temperature conditions like 3600 ° C, while spacecrafts like fighter jet and spacex of America start trembling around 1300 ° C.

The gas stove of your kitchen is hot up to about 200 ° C and the heat shield of NASA’s space shuttle can bear the heat of up to 1300 ° C. But this new ceramic prepared by China can bear more than three times more heat than that. The secret of its strength is hidden in the oxide layer built inside it, which protects the material from both oxygen and fire. Especially Tungsten plays an important role in it, which stands firmly against oxygen.

Till now, rockets or hypersonic tunnels were used for testing such materials, which were quite expensive and risky. But the Chinese team has prepared a laser-based high-utterput system that can tested the material in a heat of up to 3800 ° C. Just hit the laser, look at the effect and record the data.

This weapon will be used in many places. On the nose of hypersonic missiles, in the outer layers of the spacecraft, in jet engines and for plasma protection in the semiconductor industry. It can be used in future areas where temperature is excessive and normal materials do not work.

Advanced Jets of America, where this new ceramic of China is limited around 1300 ° C so far can prove to be many times more powerful than them.