Sentences with phrase «form of electrical currents»

«The components of today's computers, in which information is passed only in the form of electrical currents, can not be fundamentally improved.

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He thought that wiretapping was just a new form of coerced confession — the replacement of «force and violence» by wires and electrical current.
The electrical current can also be channeled to form hydrogen gas through the addition of electric power from a small photovoltaic cell that absorbs the excess light.
Cohen Kadosh's team made headlines in 2010, when it showed that a different form of electrical jolt — transcranial direct - current stimulation (TDCS)-- helped volunteers to learn and remember a number system made up of unfamiliar symbols.
If the right electrical current is applied, the electrons jump from layer to layer, in each step emitting energy in the form of light.
As the field lines are electrically forced to expand into the vessel, a thin layer, or sheet, of electrical current can form.
The researchers engineered frog eggs to express the 17 abnormal forms of KCNQ1, then measured how the cells transmitted electrical currents.
The continual flow of electrical current results in chemical reactions at the site of the electrodes delivering the signal, causing gas bubbles, corrosion and toxic byproducts to form.
Many of the frontiers of fusion science exist at the extremes of the plasma state, a state of matter where gases are hot enough that electrons disassociate from atomic nuclei (ions), forming an ensemble of ions and electrons that can conduct electrical currents and be confined by electric and magnetic fields.
Neuromuscular electrical stimulation is a form of electrical stimulation that uses current to stimulate a motor nerve and cause the contraction of a muscle or muscle group.
They found that by running a small electrical current through seawater, a hard shell of calcium carbonate would form on the cathode.
Crisscrossing these shapes are yellow drips and drips off drips painted with graffiti acrylic that form a linear web, referencing currents of air or electrical energy.
(charcoal, a form of carbon glows when an electrical current is applied to it) He originally settled on burnt cotton but this only gave about a 15 hours of light before burning out.
Hence I see it as being clearer to regard a planet and in particular it's atmosphere (in our case air AND water) as a form of «resistor» in the same way as an electrical resistor will delay the current passing through it and thereby generate heat.
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