Sentences with phrase «if electrons in atoms»

«If electrons in atoms could do this, then we could do it on a larger scale.»

Not exact matches

if you want hydrogen 1 proton, 1 neutron, 1 electron and you have 1 atom of hydrogen; the hard part is it would cost us more energy than we can afford at this point in our technological stage to accomplish such a feat.

And since everything in the universe acts according to a definite pattern (electrons whiz round the nucleus of an atom and humans desire happiness - even if they are mistaken in what they do to try and get happy - and acorn trees produce acorns) then it is safe to say that there must be an intelligence moving the universe.

After all, particle accelerator searches over the last two decades had narrowed the range of possible masses for the Higgs; if it existed at all, it had to weigh in at between 114 billion and 143 billion electron volts or GeV (1 GeV is slightly more than the mass of a hydrogen atom).

If you took high school chemistry, then you undoubtedly recall the bizarre drawings of the «orbitals» that describe where in an atom or a molecule an electron is likely to be found.

«The electron does naturally oscillate in the field of the laser, but if the laser intensity changes these oscillations also change, and this forces the electron to constantly change its energy level and thus its state, even leaving the atom.

In particular, if an atom inside a solid such as a silica wafer is hit by an X-ray photon and a hole forms, it's not clear that the excited electron hangs around to form an exciton.

«We thus wanted to know if, after the electrons are freed from their atoms, it is still possible to trap them in the laser and force them to stay near the nucleus, as the hypothesis of Walter Henneberger suggests,» he adds.

In the late 1990s, Arthur Nozik of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, theorized that if the semiconductors were made out of nanoparticles, they could excite multiple electrons with less photon energy, because less of the incoming energy would be sapped by vibrating atoms in the crystalline latticIn the late 1990s, Arthur Nozik of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, theorized that if the semiconductors were made out of nanoparticles, they could excite multiple electrons with less photon energy, because less of the incoming energy would be sapped by vibrating atoms in the crystalline latticin Golden, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, theorized that if the semiconductors were made out of nanoparticles, they could excite multiple electrons with less photon energy, because less of the incoming energy would be sapped by vibrating atoms in the crystalline latticin the crystalline lattice.

Researchers in Spain have discovered that if lead atoms are intercalated on a graphene sheet, a powerful magnetic field is generated by the interaction of the electrons» spin with their orbital movement.

If so, he reasoned, that encoding must lie in the atoms and electrons that make up a given material, and in their crystal structure: the way they are arranged in space.

But if the material's atomic structure is more random — with some atoms here, and a whole bunch over there, as is the case in many industrially manufactured alloys — then the electron waves scatter and reflect in highly complicated ways that can lead the waves to disappear altogether.

Trying to understand the structure of the atom and the way electrons evolve in time felt very distant from everyday life, very distant from anything that government should be funding, if it's funding things that actually make a difference to our lives.

Although we've talked about breaking an atom apart in steps, you can, of course, hit a complete atom (electrons and nucleus) with something; if you hit it hard enough, you'll get a load of bits and pieces.

In particular, a charged molecule called hydronium, which has three hydrogen atoms and one oxygen ion, can transform into water (plus an independent hydrogen atom) if it captures a free - floating electron.

If, for instance, the energy of an electron inside an atom is measured, it is always found in special energy states — other energy values are just not allowed.

If the electron orbits the nucleus at a great distance, there is plenty of space in between for other atoms.

Iron atoms in the corona are stripped of their electrons, which can only happen if the atoms are heated to millions of degrees.