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Can you safely cut/carve salt crystals/rock with a laser?

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If you get salt dust, say from etching, that might be pretty corrosive on the metal parts of the laser if there's enough humidity around too. read more

Laser materials used like that need specific types of electron transitions to function, supporting a so-called population inversion. Ruby works for that, salt and sugar do not. The reason why crystals are used is because every molecule/atom/ion in a crystal is in a very similar environment; this helps the laser process. read more

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