Sentences with phrase «electric current passes»

With today's device microprocessors, electric current passes through transistors, which are essentially very small electronic switches.

When electric current passes through the cell, positively charged ions from the compound are attracted to the negative coil and negatively charged ions are attracted to the positive coil, splitting the material and yielding its constituent elements along with new compounds.

Shock collars use electric current passing through metal contact points on the collar to give your dog a signal.

I might point out that electric currents passing through matter tend to increase the energetic state of the matter, though if you only use hydrocarbons as a source of energy, then of course that limits the number possible insights.

Got this as a replacement within 10 days as the first piece had issues i.e. phone getting hot while using camera with flash on, micro phone issues, could also feel minor electric current pass through the frame at the time of charging the phone.

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Then pulses of electric current are passed through her brain via electrodes positioned on her head.

In the conventional Magnetherm process, the molten slag is heated by passing an electric current through it.

Besides direct application of heat, heat energy can be stored by passing an electric current through the material or irradiating it with light, enabling the repeated absorption and release of heat energy by a variety of methods.

The composite material showed excellent heating properties, producing heat as electric current was passed through the silver nanowires, even when bent repeatedly or when rolled up into a tube.

This process could form the basis of a practical solar - energy storage system, Nocera says, in which electric current from a solar cell passes through water to the catalyst, breaking the water into oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis.

The organic compounds in an OLED system emit light when an electric current is passed through them, and they need no backlight, making them thinner than traditional displays.

The technique is usually used to image molecules, by measuring attractive forces between the tip and sample, or the electric currents that pass between them.

Summers underwent regular physical therapy sessions during which researchers passed pulses of electric current through the electrodes to stimulate neurons in the spinal cord.

The team's ultimate aim is to make «electroluminescent» materials, which emit light after an electric current has passed through them.

I have simply used basic principles of chemistry to calculate how much silver would be deposited into distilled water (DW) when a given amount of electric current is passed through pure silver electrodes.

Edison favoured direct current and Westinghouse alternative current, and it was a titanic war of personalities and ideas, which incidentally involved a gruesome minor battle, which this film tactfully passes over: Edison tried to get the rival AC approach identified (and stigmatised) in the public mind with the death penalty and the electric chair, whose frazzling executions were macabre and often bungled.

The driver can lighten or darken the glass by varying an electric current that passes through the roof's electrochromic coating.

The mild electric current is then passed between pairs of needles.

The radiation is not absorbed throughout the full height of the atmosphere, passing through it rather like an electric current through a conductor.

II: The sodium hydroxide / carbonate solution that results from Step 1 is pumped into an electrolysis cell through which an electric current is passed.

The condensed water is passed into an electrolyser where an electric current splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen.

An electric baseboard heater is designed to operate in free air and it depends on air currents passing by to limit the maximum exterior temperature it will reach (for safety reasons).

Just as current flowing through a wire causes a torqued magnetic field around the circumference of the wire, the current passing through the rotating Earth produces an electric current about the equator in the direction of rotation.

An electric current strips protons from the water, which pass through the membrane and react with nitrogen to make ammonia.

You have to melt the bauxite in another mineral called cryolite, and then pass an electric current through it, separating the oxygen atoms from the aluminium.

If another coil enters that field, it induces an electric current in the second coil (like the one inside the new iPhones), which can then be passed on to the battery.