Sentences with phrase «detailed chemical composition»

The detailed chemical composition of exhaust particles was determined by using a soot particle aerosol mass spectrometer (SP - AMS).

The probe also detailed the chemical composition of the hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's biggest moon, Titan.

Andrew Steele, an astrobiologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and his colleagues analyzed an Apollo 17 sample with a technique called Raman spectroscopy, which gives a detailed chemical composition of the material under study.

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We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

The special treatment alters the chemical composition of the complex sandwich structure — thereby altering its electronic properties, as confirmed by various methods including detailed electron microscope investigations.

And with the right tools, scientists can mine these traces for date details and chemical composition to get a rare snapshot of early Earth.

But until researchers gain more details about their chemical composition, she adds, «we can not begin to assess their precise climate impact.»

Now, scientists have studied the sparkling wine's chemical composition and performed aroma and taste analyses to reveal details about the champagne - making process in times past.

Ten exoskeleton specimens were studied, and experimental analyses were performed using laboratory techniques including scanning electron microscopy and electron diffraction spectroscopy, revealing details about the structure and chemical composition.

The researchers used high - resolution scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive x-ray analysis to study microstructure and elemental composition, and high - resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for more detailed chemical characterization.

This powerful capability is key for astronomers because a highly - detailed spectral image allows them to identify a cosmic object's characteristics, including its temperature, motion, density, mass, distance, chemical composition, and more.

Not only does a red or blue shift reveal its velocity but the details of the spectrum often reveal its chemical composition, its temperature and sometimes even its approximate size.

Of course, a telescope like this would then be able, once an asteroid is detected, to make very detailed studies of its chemical composition - how it's kept together, etc..

The Webb telescope, using spectroscopy to study the chemical composition of such disks, will be able to examine this finding in greater detail, pinpointing just how much water is present in the region close to the star, and looking at whether the discovery extends to lower - mass stars and even dim «brown dwarf» stars.

Using the European XFEL's brilliant X-ray radiation, physicists, chemists, biologists, and other scientists from all over the world will be able to map the atomic details of viruses, decipher the molecular composition of cells, take three - dimensional images of the nanoworld, film chemical reactions, study processes such as those occurring deep inside planets, and more.

In addition to structural details, this technique allows researchers to make assertions about local chemical composition.