Sentences with phrase «because lithium»

Throttling was coded in the software itself to avoid random shutdowns because lithium batteries have a natural degradation process, and to offset that, Apple cut corners in performance.

Apple said it slows down devices because lithium - ion batteries lose capacity over time.

What I'd like to see is Samsung, Apple, and the other tech giants investing in other battery technologies because lithium - ion clearly comes with too many drawbacks.

And because its lithium - ion battery is re-charged with a thin solar panel, there's no need for extra batteries.

A typical lithium - ion battery starts to deteriorate after a few thousand charge cycles because lithium deposits build up on the electrodes and cause the battery to lose the ability to hold a charge.

Rechargeable batteries made of lithium metal hold a lot of promise because lithium is the most electrically positive metal and has a very high capacity.

And because lithium is the world's lightest metal — it can even float — it's used to make lightweight batteries.

That's because lithium is the most important ingredient in the batteries that power these cars.

A lithium - ion battery fire is different from a gasoline fire, because lithium and water can be explosive in combination.

Lithium even burns in water, which is too bad because a lithium - water battery could be both cheap and powerful.

But because lithium is the lightest metal, lithium - based batteries can store more energy at a given weight than any other variety.

Not exact matches

Industry watchers believe they could be the next big thing because they're safer than lithium - ion.

While hybrid electric and full electric vehicles have become more common in recent years, the aviation industry has been slow to embrace e-planes, partially because of the weight and cost of lithium - ion battery packs.

The U.S. Department of Energy describes lithium - ion battery technology as growing in popularity because of «its lightweight, high - energy density, and ability to recharge.»

And because the drones rely on lithium - ion batteries that don't always do well in the bitter cold during PyeongChang winters, Intel (intc) tested the drones in Finland to evaluate their performance under similar conditions.

In most non-industrial devices used in relatively safe conditions, you have lithium manganese oxide flowing into graphite, because those materials are cheap, relatively safe, and dense.

I recently started taking Lithium again for my bipolar disorder, and was told that there's a chance I won't be able to breastfeed because of it; I'm still eight months pregnant.

The Hoverboard coupled with the LiFePo4 batteries is the best of the best, because the LiFePo4 batteries are only a few hundred more than the primitive SLA batteries, and a whopping thousand dollars more for the Lithium Ion powered models.

It has a tote bag, is quite lightweight and has battery option also with a rechargeable lithium ion battery because of which it scores high on portability.

Because it is a light metal, lithium has a lot of charge - carrying ions for its weight, making for batteries that are smaller but more powerful.

Because this is a lithium battery, it will charge faster than some other kinds, too.

Because all elements in the universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.

The discovery could be the key to inexpensive, safe battery cells; inexpensive because, apart from anything else, the sodium FSI cells can be constructed more safely and thus more easily than the familiar lithium ion batteries.

You don't need to worry about getting an external balancer because this machine automatically balances your lithium batteries for safer and more efficient charging.

Today's batteries use graphite anodes, but lithium anodes are ideal because the metal is lightweight and stores high energy levels in a small spac...

Using silicon in the anode increases the battery's capacity dramatically because one silicon atom can bond up to 3.75 lithium ions, whereas with a graphite anode six carbon atoms are needed for every lithium atom.

Traditionally, lithium - ion batteries contain a graphite anode, but silicon has recently emerged as a promising anode substitute because it is the second most abundant element on earth and has a theoretical capacity of 3600 milliamp hours per gram (mAh / g), almost 10 times the capacity of graphite.

Because it is so feeble, a brown dwarf tends to retain fragile elements like lithium that are quickly destroyed in normal stars — which makes the presence of lithium a good test of whether a small star is really a brown dwarf.

While lithium carbonate has been very effective for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder, and credited for reducing suicides in depressive phases of the disease, patients who take lithium carbonate are often noncompliant because of adverse effects, including hand tremor, diarrhea, vomiting, weight gain and decreased thyroid function.

Lithium - ion batteries are popular in cars and handheld electronics because they are light and powerful, though their charge capacity still fades over time.

This is because once the lithium ions penetrate the crystalline lattice during the loading process, the lattice expands.

The nanomaterial chemistry innovation and manufacturing process innovation that results in binderless electrodes «is a game changer because it helps solve a fundamental problem the lithium - ion battery industry has not been able to solve for decades,» he said.

Because miniature paper balls are conductive and allow lithium ions to flow rapidly along their surface, the scaffold creates a continuously conductive, dynamic, porous network for lithium.

The team demonstrated the new concept in a lithium carbon fluoride battery, considered one of the best single - use batteries because of its high energy density, stability and long shelf life.

Because of the extreme temperature, hydrogen, helium, lithium, and beryllium existed only as bare atomic nuclei.

Lithium (Li) metal electrodes are not deployable in rechargeable batteries because electrochemical plating and stripping invariably leads to growth of dendrites that reduce coulombic efficiency and eventually short the battery.

The magnetic field, which may be generated by the planet's core, is connected to the winds because of high temperatures stripping electrons from atmospheric atoms of lithium, sodium and potassium, making them positively charged.

One key component of any price reduction will be drops in the cost of batteries, where Tesla has an advantage because it uses the same lithium ion cells used in the vast array of consumer electronics, where such batteries have also faced fire troubles occasionally.

Lithium - ion technologies make up a large part of the proceedings because energy storage is a crucial enabling technology for clean energy systems, such as powering electric vehicles and smoothing out electricity from wind and solar generators.

«On paper, magnesium batteries are highly desirable because they promise greater energy density on top of the ability to solve several of the key issues researchers — and unfortunately consumers — are discovering with lithium - ion batteries, including cost, safety, and performance at the most fundamental levels,» Andrews says.

The scientists explained that uneven movement of lithium could have lasting, damaging effects because it strains the structure of the active materials in batteries and can lead to fatigue failure.

Because these diodes produce red rather than green light, the researchers use crystals made from a mixture of lithium, strontium and aluminium fluoride, doped with chromium, as an amplifier.

Flow batteries are also considered to be very safe, because unlike some lithium - ion designs, they are not prone to thermal runaway, which can cause battery fires.

It is also an attractive anode material for lithium - ion batteries because it has a large theoretical charge - discharge capacity compared to graphite and high lithium ion diffusivity at room temperature compared to silicon.

According to Isao Tanihata, head of the Linearc Laboratory at Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, the answer is that more boron was created than theorists expected because of a nuclear reaction between lithium and helium in the big bang fireball.

Lithium - ion batteries are used in portable devices because they are lightweight and efficient, but when they short circuit, their liquid components can vaporise and catch fire.

Ross says that because the hyperactivity and decreased anxiety might be interpreted as «mania - like» symptoms, the researchers fed the mice either lithium or valproic acid (an anti-seizure drug, also used to treat mania) over a two week period, as is often done in human therapeutic trials.

Because sodium is the more abundant of the two elements, such batteries may be cheaper than their lithium - ion counterparts, says Kendrick.

Because particles with different spin states interact, lithium atoms from opposite clouds should bounce off each other.

Brown dwarfs are not considered stars because they are too small to fuse hydrogen in their cores — they don't have the gravitational oomph in their core to sustain hydrogen fusion, but, depending on how massive they are, they do have enough mass to sporadically fuse elements like lithium and deuterium.