Sentences with phrase «spectrometer in»

They also gathered samples from the wells of families in town to assess the quality and mineral content of drinking water, using a mass spectrometer in a partnership with a local college laboratory.

Next, they collided the clusters they selected with a special surface inside the mass spectrometer in a process known as surface - induced dissociation.

Maria Zatko used this mass spectrometer in her crowdfunded research project when she was a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The infrared auroras show up in green in this false - color composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, stitched together from 65 individual observations taken by the probe's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer in 2008.

Calibration and characterization of a highly efficient spectrometer in von Hamos geometry for 7 - 10 keV x-rays

Not exact matches

The process is fairly simple: Extract the cell's DNA, measure its carbon - 14 levels with a tool called a mass spectrometer, and check the result against tables of carbon - 14 decay in the period since 1963.

We proposed our instrument, the electron spectrometer, which measures the energy and direction of electrons, in 1989, and were selected to develop it in 1990.

For example, one of the mission's instruments called the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) will identify and map the amount of possible life - giving elements like organic material, salts, and acid hydrates in Europa's surface and underwater ocean.

In a London outpost, an adviser pulls out a spectrometer to test my skin hue, then recommends complementary makeup colors (including a «warm paprika» lipstick).

But Lindsay and other entrepreneurs like Mark Falcone, who co-found tCheck, a company that makes a spectrometer device to test the potency of edibles, says they were kicked off all the processors at once - which is highly unusual based on the previous «Whack - a-Mole» cancelation patterns these processors had practiced in the past.

The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to see if they are biochemical in origin.

These results came from the space - based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, sent to the International Space Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle Endeavor.

Previous projects include an in - situ iron ore spectrometer, a mini-LIDAR device, a table - top pipetting robot, and operations and testing of the Rock Abrasion Tools on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

Fossil are analyzed with chromatographs and spectrometers which tell you the composition in great detail and accuracy.

As Donike said, and contrary to what most everyone in Caracas thought, the $ 200,000 worth of equipment used there — two mass spectrometers, four gas chromatographs and two computer printout machines, all American - made by Hewlett - Packard — was virtually identical to that used to test athletes in Helsinki and at last year's soccer World Cup in Madrid.

«We're at the ragged edge of our signal to noise,» says James Hannigan, who's in charge of the spectrometer.

The spectrometer will measure the corona in infrared wavelengths between 1 and 6 micrometers — the first time it has been measured fully in this range.

The gamma radiation emitted in the decay of its excited states was detected using the gamma ray spectrometer DALI2.

«Historically, India has not done well in science - led innovation,» according to Mashelkar, who noted that India's first and only science Nobel laureate, C. V. Raman, discovered the Raman effect but that commercialization — development of Raman spectrometers — took place in the West.

When his lab's mass spectrometer showed a chemical profile identical to the one he was seeking, he dissolved the compound in propylene glycol, an odorless solvent that turned the mestanolone into a liquid.

In all of these positions he utilized, maintained, and repaired mass spectrometers.

OSIRIS - REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS)-- An instrument provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and designed to measure visible and infrared light from Bennu to identify mineral and organic material.

Once he had the signal from the lab glass, he used an algorithm designed to pick out similar signals in data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers are a special breed of a class of instruments — mass spectrometers — that are used in many different areas of science, from physics to biomedical science, for the separation of atoms and molecules of different charges and molecular weights.

In addition to learning how to use a Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) for separation and product characterization, my students will do literature searches about possible chemical synthesis routes.

In some ways, a California company seems an odd choice for an upstate New York scientist who was determined to put down roots, but with a 90 % market share of gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers, applying to Thermo Finnigan was pretty much a no - brainer for someone with Burdett's experience, and it worked out.

Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS)-- A student experiment provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in Cambridge, which will observe the X-ray spectrum to identify chemical elements on Bennu's surface and their abundances.

They ran the samples through a type of mass spectrometer that not only detects which isotopes are present but how deep down they are in a surface sample.

On board Cassini is an instrument partly designed at UCL, the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS), which was used in this study.

Benna is lead author of a paper describing observations from LADEE's Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) instrument published May 28 in Geophysical Research Letters.

Although the whole drive to understand the molecular basis of beer production involves modern tools that are used in biotechnology, such as real - time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), gene chips, proteomics, mass spectrometers, and so forth, genetic manipulation is not acceptable in any form — not in any of the raw materials or the yeast.

DAMPE's data could help to determine whether a surprising pattern in the abundance of high - energy electrons and positrons — detected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station — comes from dark matter or from astronomical sources such as pulsars, says Pohl, who also works on the AMS.

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

The newly created objects have different sizes and shapes, among them are many elongated bodies, some of which consist of two parts, just like the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, which the University of Bern studied in detail with the Bern mass spectrometer ROSINA on the Rosetta spacecraft.

MINI MASSES KATRIN's spectrometer, shown here, will precisely measure the energy of electrons emitted in the decay of tritium, which will help scientists pin down the minuscule mass of neutrinos.

Next, Agee and his colleagues used a laser to extract water molecules trapped within minerals in the meteorite and fed them into a mass spectrometer to calculate the ratio of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, to ordinary hydrogen.

The study began four years ago when Yeung, then a UCLA postdoctoral scholar in Young's laboratory, learned about the first - of - its - kind mass spectrometer that was being installed in Young's laboratory.

In January, Cassini will make another flyby of Titan that will allow the spectrometer a chance to confirm a radar feature detected in Punga MarIn January, Cassini will make another flyby of Titan that will allow the spectrometer a chance to confirm a radar feature detected in Punga Marin Punga Mare.

The signal from nitric oxide usually overwhelms the signal from 15N15N in mass spectrometers.»

The new ice - scarp studies confirm indications from fresh - crater and neutron - spectrometer observations that a layer rich in water ice begins within just one or two yards of the surface in some areas.

«We're trying to find out exactly what is coming from the rings and what is due to the atmosphere,» Hunter Waite, Cassini team lead for the mass spectrometer instrument and an atmospheric scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said at the Sept. 13 news conference.

Analysis of these samples by the spacecraft's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer designed and developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, detected eight different types of metal ions, including sodium, magnesium and iron.

From in situ measurements made over a 20 - month period by the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on Curiosity at Gale Crater, we report detection of background levels of atmospheric methane of mean value 0.69 ± 0.25 ppbv at the 95 % confidence interval (CI).

In the original version of the technology, these peptides were detected using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which analyzes the molecular makeup of a sample.

By looking at the ratio of two of these cosmic - ray - made elements — aluminum - 26 and beryllium - 10 caught in crystals of quartz, and measured in an accelerator mass spectrometer — the scientists were able to calculate how long the rocks in their samples had been exposed to the sky versus covered by ice.

They took sludge samples gathered from around the country and measured the metal content using a mass spectrometer that can discern different elements as they are ionized in a superhot plasma.

Meanwhile, on the ground, earth scientists from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy are taking aim at the volcano with spectrometers, which measure the types and amounts of gases spewing from its mouth.

This study used variations in the thermal emissivity of the surface observed by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft to identify compositional differences in lava flows at three hotspots.

Launched in 1997, Cassini has been exploring the Saturn system for more than nine years with a suite of instruments that also includes visible - light cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, as well as magnetic field and charged particle sensors.