Sentences with phrase «called deuterium»

One involves working out what is called the deuterium excess by comparing the relative amounts of deuterium and oxygen - 18 in the ice.

Carbon can come as one of two isotopes (carbon - 12 or carbon - 13), as can hydrogen, including a form called deuterium.

Entombed within the ice core were quantities of a tell - tale type, or isotope, of hydrogen called deuterium.

D / H is the ratio of heavy hydrogen (also called deuterium, or D) to normal hydrogen (H).

At electrical breakdown, the energies in the surging electrons were thousands of times greater than 10 — 19 MeV, so during the flood, bremsstrahlung radiation released a sea of neutrons throughout the crust.83 Subterranean water absorbed many of these neutrons, converting normal hydrogen (1H) into heavy hydrogen (2H, called deuterium) and normal oxygen (16O) into 18O.

And ROSINA, a Rosetta instrument that uses spectrometers to measure gas abundances, has obtained a highly sought after result: the so - called deuterium - to - hydrogen ratio of water in the comet's thin atmosphere, or coma.

Hydrogen itself just has a proton at its nucleus; if you have a proton and a neutron that's called deuterium.

Mainstream fusion power schemes fuse hydrogen isotopes called deuterium and tritium to make helium nuclei, releasing large amounts of energy in the process.

The discovery's telltale sign is found in the ratio of an isotopic form of hydrogen, called deuterium, to standard hydrogen.

Analysis of the water leaving Venus's atmosphere, however, shows that many of the hydrogen ions are actually a stable isotope of the element called deuterium, which consists of a proton and a neutron (rather than just a proton) in its nucleus.

Not exact matches

That way, neutrons and protons could link up and make deuterium, also called heavy hydrogen.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) aims to produce 500 megawatts of power by burning a plasma of deuterium and tritium held in place by superconducting magnets in a doughnut - shaped vessel called a torus.

When two deuterium atoms fuse in his experiments, they produce helium - 4 together with energy, in the form of photons and lattice vibrations called «phonons».

Canadian reactors use water loaded with deuterium (called «heavy water»), while others are gas cooled.