Sentences with phrase «atoms around»

It does not need the atoms around it provide energy to «warm up» the photon.

The atom now has EXTRA energy to share with other atoms around it.

Even the positions of the hydrogen atoms around the carbon rings can be deduced from the image.

Using the magnetic tip of the microscope to move the atoms around, the physicists also managed to shift their spins.

It can even be used to shunt atoms around.

«What this new mode implies is that up to one - half of the atoms around us — including in the solar system, on Earth and in each one of us — comes not from our own galaxy but from other galaxies, up to one million light years away,» he said.

Clearly, we have learned to push atoms around with amazing facility, but what do all these tricks enable us to do?

The ejected helium particles smash into the atoms around them.

Another far more arduous and painstaking technique involves dragging and placing atoms one by one using an atomic force microscope or a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), both of which are sensitive enough to move single atoms around on a surface with a fine tip.

IBM scientists first demonstrated this technique in 1990 when they discovered how to use an STM to move single xenon atoms around on a nickel surface — they used 35 of them to spell out «IBM».

One of the pictures accompanying the Daily Mail article showed the hexagonal shapes of five carbon rings as well as the positions of the hydrogen atoms around these rings.

There are just not enough atoms around to heat our hypothetical thermometer or the underlying photosphere.

This all changed with the first generation of stars, so bright and powerful that their light started to break apart hydrogen atoms around them, while their cores produced the elements essential for life itself.

With these probes scientists can not only see the atoms but they can also use them to push the atoms around.

Not exact matches

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

But, once again, and more fundamentally, atoms, generally, are visible — or else we could not see the World around us.

I mean that the atom bomb hid from us the ending going on all around us, and that far from destroying modern times, the atom bomb kept modern times alive for nearly fifty years.

despite my religious beliefes, i can still wrap my head around the bing bang theory and evolution and we all came from single cell beings or atoms, however, until someone can explain how these atoms / cell just arrived, i will continue with my religous beliefs

They're made up of atoms, and atoms are mostly space inhabited by bits off energy flying around in their orbits.

But as long as one is committed to substantialist thinking, one assumes that in the ultimate analysis the event can be understood in terms of matter in motion — atoms moving around in the void.

The atom had a nucleus with electrons orbiting around it.

Is it being pushed around by electro - magnetic forces arising from nearby atoms, or is it going to respond to morphic resonance or is it going to take some course which is neither of the two?

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

At some point in time something happened that began to build a universe, maybe just two atoms flying around and finally colliding to set this universe in motion.

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

For those who enjoy chemistry: Free radicals are an unpaired electron in orbit around the nucleus of an atom.

The components of water ice — hydrogen and oxygen atoms — have been around for much of the universe's history, but of course it's not water till they're combined.

The holes in the cheese represent places around stars and galaxies where UV radiation has ionized hydrogen atoms, bringing 21 - centimeter emissions to a halt.

As the atoms move around in the supercooled state in search for nucleation sites, the temperature continues to drop.

Although skyrmions are made up of atoms, which remain stationary within the material, skyrmions can move around like a true particle, by sliding from one group of atoms to another.

These protons yank negatively charged electrons from their orbits around atoms within molecules.

Only with this experimental set - up is it possible to measure the tiny forces between microscope tip and noble gas atom, as a pure metal surface would allow the noble gas atoms to slide around.

The electrons that dance around an atomic nucleus help determine how the atom bonds with others, but they are notoriously difficult to pin down.

Modifications to this set - up could produce a trap capable of keeping a cloud of cold atoms spinning around the nanotube.

The condensate, which is made from around 4000 cooled rubidium atoms, is trapped inside the beams by the same forces used to create optical tweezers, which can manipulate particles on a small scale.

Around the edges of the crystal, some sulfur atoms are bound to just two molybdenum atoms.

As our solar system slowly orbits around the galactic center, the sun's ultraviolet radiation carves out an egg - shaped region of ionized hydrogen atoms surrounded by neutral hydrogen gas.

Jonathan Marangos at Imperial College London, UK, says the super-short flashes could let researchers image the movement of electrons around large atoms.

Fischbach has an idea about how neutrinos might alter the energy levels in atoms and monkey around with the way they decay even without being absorbed — a decidedly unconventional view.

But if we were shown a movie depicting atoms jiggling around, until recently we could be reasonably sure we were looking at a cartoon, an artist's impression or a simulation of some sort.

Atoms are composed of electrons moving around a central nucleus they are bound to.

Other proposals include the radionuclide spike in the wake of the first atom bomb explosion in 1945 to a dip in CO2 levels around 1610 occasioned by the mass deaths that followed European arrival in North and South America a century or so earlier.

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.

The vortex could be shrunk further with a redesigned mask, potentially allowing single atoms to be trapped inside it and moved around to modify nanoscale structures.

Half a century ago, the theorist Walter Henneberger wondered if it was possible to free an electron from its atom with the laser field, but still make it stay around the nucleus.

But radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei, meaning they can move around the chart.

«The atoms are arranged in a regular periodic grid and are not jiggling around, as in a liquid,» says Coh.

Like kids playing crack - the - whip, atoms of hydrogen and helium figuratively link arms and spin around the planet in unison, scientists report.

The lifting process frees the atom from the tight grip of the magnetite, and together, the molecule and the platinum atom can start moving around randomly across the magnetite surface.

While classic Newtonian physics does a fine job of describing the world we see around us, it breaks down utterly when confronted with the unpredictable behavior of the quantum world, the realm of atoms and quarks.