Sentences with phrase «heavy isotope of hydrogen»

Pons and Fleischmann asserted that passing a current through heavy water — water containing deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen — between palladium electrodes produced a huge amount of heat.

That's because during evaporation, water molecules containing deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen made of one proton and one neutron, get left behind in the ocean.

Next, Agee and his colleagues used a laser to extract water molecules trapped within minerals in the meteorite and fed them into a mass spectrometer to calculate the ratio of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, to ordinary hydrogen.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a multinational collaboration that represents one of the world's largest attempts to fuse deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen.

One common technique for tracking a drug's fate is to label its molecular framework with heavier isotopes of hydrogen (either deuterium or tritium).

The energy crisis was over; all you needed was palladium electrodes and heavy water to achieve the room - temperature fusion of deuterium, a heavier isotope of hydrogen.

When completed in 2018, the reactor will fuse together two heavy isotopes of hydrogen to release vast quantities of energy.

Not exact matches

In the 1950s, deuterium was used in thermonuclear weapons because nuclear fusion of deuterium atoms (or of deuterium and the heavier hydrogen isotope, tritium) releases tremendous energy.

Hydrogen atoms contained in water readily bond with the heavy isotope to form hydrochloric acid gas, which then leaks into space — leaving more of the lighter isotope behind.

As precipitation moves inland, water with the heavier form of hydrogen falls out first, which creates predictable patterns of the stable isotopes ratios of precipitation across continents.

When ocean storms bump into mountains, raindrops burdened with heavy isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen are the first to precipitate.

To understand the origin of Earth's water, scientists have fingerprinted potential sources, like asteroids and comets, using the ratio of light to heavy hydrogen isotopes.

SNO uses «heavy water» (in which the isotope deuterium replaces «normal» hydrogen) to detect all three flavors of neutrinos.

Deuterium (or heavy hydrogen) is a fragile isotope that can not survive the high temperatures achieved at the centers of stars.