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It's really unassuming. >> unassuming is part of the brilliance of the concussion made by air force cadet haley weir and her instructor ryan burke. this could one day save the lives of those in combat. >> the concept of going out there and stopping a bullet is something we have made in the chemistry lab. that should really spark the interest for me. >> 21-year-old weir got the idea and her chemistry class and went to her advisor. >> naturally, i'm pretty skeptical. >> to convince him, she poured water into a bowl of corn starch and asked them to put his finger in the mixture with force. >> i j...

It's really unassuming. >> unassuming is part of the brilliance of the concussion made by air force cadet haley weir and her instructor ryan burke. this could one day save the lives of those in combat. >> the concept of going out there and stopping a bullet is something we have made in the chemistry lab. that should really spark the interest for me. >> 21-year-old weir got the idea and her chemistry class and went to her advisor. >> naturally, i'm pretty skeptical. >> to convince him, she poured water into a bowl of corn starch and asked them to put his finger in the mixture with force. >> i j...

And assistant professor ryan burke did it. while in a chemistry class she came up with an idea no not only stop a bullet but do so in a way more wider and dr. burke was skeptical. her idea is a concept called sheer thickening fluid. she poured water in corn starch. he almost broke a finger. an object will push in. at speed it's practically impossible. they combined the flewed with anti-ballistic materials. the ingredients are secret. mixed and spread on the front of this block stopped a 9 millimeter bullet. same goes for a 44 magnum. it stops it from penetrating. more research is being done ri...

Happen. >> reporter: amazing to think about how far we've come, and companies like spacex continue to succeed, harris, how far we can go. harris: some of the reading for today, i follow some of the people on twitter, they were disappointed. there was a high school in bellevue, washington, counting on this happening because they had something special on board. >> reporter: that's right, you may remember in high school, i remember having the soda bottles and launching them in the air. that was the extent of our experiments. these students took it well beyond that. students from a high school too...

>> reporter: amazing to think about how far we've come, and companies like spacex continue to succeed, harris, how far we can go. harris: some of the reading for today, i follow some of the people on twitter, they were disappointed. there was a high school in bellevue, washington, counting on this happening because they had something special on board. >> reporter: that's right, you may remember in high school, i remember having the soda bottles and launching them in the air. that was the extent of our experiments. these students took it well beyond that. students from a high school took part i...