Sentences with phrase «electric discharge»

The results captured the imagination of the public, who were intrigued by the use of electric discharges to form the prebiotic soup.

Therefore, during intense solar storms, the regolith is expected to dissipate the build - up of charge too slowly to avoid the destructive effects of a sudden electric discharge, called dielectric breakdown.

And an everlasting impression was left in the public's imagination by Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), in which Eramus Darwin gained a place for his advocacy of therapies based on electric discharges.

Manning, H. L. K., ten Kate, I. L., Battel, S. J. & Mahaffy, P. R. Electric discharge in the Martian atmosphere, Paschen curves and implications for future missions.

Two factories owned by General Electric discharged PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, for three decades before the toxic chemicals were banned in 1977 as a health threat to people and wildlife.

Charged particles are produced by electric discharge and accelerated, i.e. momentum is transferred to them via electromagnetic fields.

Science says, we beleive methane and ammonia combined as the reult of an electric discharge, probalby lightning, which formed amino acids.

He placed these compounds in a flask, introduced an electric discharge to simulate lightning and ultraviolet light, and analyzed the resulting chemical mixture for the presence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

The gas is produced by splitting up oxygen molecules with an electric discharge.

PCD is based on the instantaneous contact produced by an electric discharge between a plasma zone and water.

In a natural environment, Catania watched an eel hunting and measured its electric discharges.

To understand the link between aerosols and electric discharges, scientists must unravel the mysteries of clouds

Miller had applied an electric discharge to a mixture of CH4, NH3, H2O, and H2 — believed at the time to be the atmospheric composition of early Earth.

The first experiment used water vapor produced by heating to simulate evaporation from the oceans; as it mixed with methane, ammonia, and hydrogen, it mimicked a water vapor - saturated primitive atmosphere, which was then subjected to an electric discharge (see the figure below).

They are capable of releasing an electric discharge, a defense which they tend to use after being split.