Sentences with phrase «when atoms»

When atoms decay, they emit three types of radiation, alpha, beta and gamma.

An easy - to - understand explanation of mirror science: how mirrors reflect things when the atoms inside them catch light and throw it back!

When atoms absorb another form of energy, which can be in the form of heat or another EMF.

When the atoms in an object collide or vibrate, their electrons are bumped up to a higher energy level.

Beta decay rates can increase dramatically when atoms are stripped of all their electrons.

When atoms fission, they release a few neutrons that continue a chain reaction.

In 1935 Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington conjectured that at very high pressures, when hydrogen makes the transition from the «molecular» phase to the «atomic» phase (when the atoms are so close to each other that the molecular structures can no longer be distinguished), hydrogen acquires metallic properties.

When the atoms were classified by this criterion and then quantified by their environments, known as coarse - graining, a clear correlation emerged between structural order and dynamics.»

This happened even when the atoms were a micrometre apart (Physical Review Letters, doi.org/bpsv).

The team observed that when atoms are spaced so that each occupies a trough in the optical lattice, when the ion crystal as a whole is dragged across the optical lattice, the atoms first tend to stick in the lattice's troughs, bound there by their preference for the lower electric potential, as well as by the Coulomb forces that keep the atoms apart.

When atoms are combined to form a semiconductor crystal, the energy levels that electrons can reside in merge to form energy bands.

When atoms of one element are fired at a lump of another, they can fuse to form a larger atom.

The cosmos as we know it started to take shape when atoms and ions paired up to form molecular hydrogen, which expelled heat out of the gas clouds, allowing them to cool down enough to form the first stars.

«When atoms and molecules undergo chemical reactions, the electrons are the ones that do the heavy lifting.

However, this creates an apparent paradox: When atoms are distributed fractally, there should be empty space between them.

When those atoms are hit by energetic cosmic ray particles, they break up in fragments, including beryllium nuclei, which can't be produced by any other means.

For the last 100 years, they have done that mostly by making and breaking the strong covalent bonds that form when atoms share electrons.

When atoms come together to form molecules, electrons on different atoms pair up to form bonds that lock the molecule together.

Since maser is produced when atoms are excited to a high energy state, the presence of a maser source suggests the possibility of a physical state which is different from that of common interstellar cloud.

«When both atoms are in the non-coupling state the photon can enter the cavity, and a standing light wave between the two mirrors builds up,» says Bastian Hacker, another doctoral candidate on the experiment.

We do not really know what atoms are until we know what happens when atoms are organized into brains.

We discover that when atoms are organized in particular ways they reveal aspects of their nature not revealed in isolation.

When the atoms begin to come together?

When an atom is divided it no longer has the characteristics of the original element.

(see Ex 6:3 in the KJV) And he changed energy into matter, which Albert Einstein established with his famous equation of E = mc2 or the amount of energy released when an atom is split equals the loss of its mass times the speed of light squared.

The scientific revolution of the twentieth century has totally revamped the notion of the matter which constitutes nature — matter is now viewed as internally dynamic, suffused with energy, this being the relation between matter and energy so vividly apparent when an atom bomb goes off.

However, when the atom was discovered to be not ultimate but, rather, composed of electrons, protons, and «empty space,» problems arose.

When the atom drops from the higher to the lower energy state, it emits a photon, or light particle, in the form of a radio wave 21 centimeters long.

The process begins when an atom with a loosely bound electron interacts with a nearby atom that also has a loosely bound electron.

The problem is that when an atom absorbs a burst...

Bohr no boor As described in «When the atom went quantum,» (SN: 7/13/13, p. 20), Bohr's willingness to travel both paths when different viewpoints seemed to clash, yet both seemed to fit the data, was crucial to the development of quantum mechanics.

The simplest example of such a splitting occurs when the atom is made to go through two separated mechanical slits.

Fusion is the opposite of fission, which frees energy when an atom like uranium splits into two smaller atomic nuclei.

«The Sweet Hereafter» and other homegrown delights When Atom Egoyan's «The Sweet Hereafter» played here in 1997, I emerged from the theater two hours later drained, haunted and terrified.

But he changed his mind during the early stages of the Second World War, when an atom bomb started to seem feasible.

In the first, basically a panel - type programme called QI, Fry and his panellists were giggling at the fact that one man was unlucky enough to be present both at Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the atom bomb was dropped — and the joke was about him being the unluckiest man in the world.

... The test is based on the following principle: When an atom transits from an excited state to a base state, it emits a photon with a specific frequency and energy.

Not exact matches

Because it was being used for atom bomb calculations and other classified tasks, ENIAC was kept secret until February 1946, when the Army and Penn scheduled a gala unveiling for the public and the press.

When publishers were finally free of the atom, pundits agreed, content would be king.

When cosmic rays strike the air, they create showers of ionizing radiation — particles that can knock electrons free of atoms and molecules — that can penetrate deep inside our bodies.

When Google created X eight years ago, X staff members would repeat the phrase «atoms, not just bits,» reflecting their emphasis on futuristic hardware, Teller said.

But when it came to his start - up venture, as he told Crain's New York Business in 1989, he knew «as much about juice as about making an atom bomb.»

When the question was asked of Nye about where did all the atoms come from for the big - bang... I thought his answer of «don't know» was good.

And when we realize how big it is, it's impossible to not be more awed by our creator - God, who understands every cell and atom and element and has arranged them perfectly in accordance with His plans.

When they are cremated they are, in the form of molecules and atoms, headed for the sky.

Times when God does things, the odds of them occurring I've seen are similar to picking the right atom out of the observable universe, beyond anyone's comprehension.

when in ancient history could man drop an atom bomb or shoot guns.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence is a well - adapted behavior (timewise, it's in its infancy) and frankly indications are that it will kill us all (thank particularly to making the atheist symbol an atom — big joke when the mushroom cloud rises).

As the very title of the essay makes clear, his problematic is how to justify the existence of compound individual entities (e.g., organisms) when the ultimate entities are microscopic (cells) or submicroscopic (atoms).

When one closely examines life without bias or prejudice, many will acknowledge that it could not have come about accidentally, that we are a product theoretical evolution, that atoms just assembled themselves into «working units».