Sentences with phrase «based liquid metals»

Specific to this nickel - bismuth system, such interfacial superstructures are the root cause of a mysterious phenomenon called «liquid metal embrittlement,» wherein a normally ductile nickel metal or nickel - based alloy can fail catastrophically in an extremely brittle manner in contact with a bismuth - based liquid metal.

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And Glencore's «liquid» inventory is the same base metals that are plunging in price from oversupply and lack of demand.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists David Bradwell and Donald Sadoway were funded to build a «pizza box» — size version of their liquid - metal battery — based loosely on the electricity - intensive process of making aluminum — that could enable the cheap storage of megawatts of electricity from intermittent resources such as the sun and wind.

The liquid metal — based reaction route can be used to create 2D materials that were previously inaccessible with preexisting methods.

«Deposition of metal films on an ionic liquid as a basis for a lunar telescope,» by Borra, Ermanno F.; Seddiki, Omar; Angel, Roger; Eisenstein, Daniel; Hickson, Paul; Seddon, Kenneth R.; Worden, Simon P. Nature.

Therefore, instead of developing solid - based PFCs, we investigated a system based on liquid metal.»

In its Report, «Pre-application Safety Evaluation: Report for the Power Reactor Innovative Small Module (PRISM) Liquid Metal Reactor,» the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stated: «On the basis of the review performed, the staff, with the ACRS in agreement, concludes that no obvious impediments to licensing the PRISM design have been identified.»

When scraps of steel and brass are anodized using a common household chemical and residential electrical current, the researchers found that the metal surfaces are restructured into nanometer - sized networks of metal oxide that can store and release energy when reacting with a water - based liquid electrolyte.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Hansen believes that liquid metal reactors are the only chance to replace coal based power and thus to leave most of nature's carbon in the ground.

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