You might have seen police force using water canons to disperse the agitating crowd but can you think of water as a tool to cut hard metals like iron and steelIJ It may seem unbelievable but it is a fact that water has a huge potential and can even cut  iron. Raja Ramanna Centre for Advance Technology on eve of the National Science Day, Sunday made an exemplary display of water cutting machine which has got the power to pierce through even the hardest of metals, iron and steel, glass as well as plastic.

A CAT scientist talking to ‘The Pioneer’ said that water released through this water cutting machine, has a pressure of 5,000 km in an area of one square meter. The kind of pressure released by this machine has the potential to cut even 6 inches thick metal, he added.

RRCAT which threw its campus open for thousands of school children from the city today on eve of the National Science Day also displayed models of Make In India as well as the Bullet Train which the Union government intends to run between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. CAT scientists RR Shinde said that it took him as well as his team members almost three months to prepare model of bullet train. At a Make in India gallery of the centre, various technological equipments of the Atomic Energy department and equipments made through indigenous technology have been put on display to showcase India’s technological advances in various fields.

Another CAT scientist Purushottam Shrivastav said the Atomic Energy department has developed various indigenous technologies at the CAT for the first time in the world. These include Indus -!  and Indus  - 2 accelerators. Of the two, Indus – 2 is the biggest accelerator of India and is counted among one of the best accelerators of the world.

The Centre has also developed fire proximity suit made of aluminum and clothes. The suit weighs 28 kgs and used by fire fighters to extinguish fire

CAT scientists while show-casing indigenously built equipments also made numerous experiments with liquid Nitrogen at Cryogenic lab of the centre under – 196 degree Celsius.