Sentences with phrase «heavy water»

To determine the generation of new muscle structures, metabolic pathways were measured making use of heavy water labeling.

The reactor is a natural circulation boiling heavy water reactor.

Heavy - water - moderated reactor: A reactor that uses heavy water as its moderator.

I can't stand to be too hot so I have to cool down with heavy water intake.

But you would notice that ice cubes made from heavy water sink rather than float when you put them in a glass of normal drinking water, because of their increased density.

The core is 100 % waterproof, keeping heavy water out of your center.

Quite often, people associate heavy water intake with cardiovascular sports.

The clip at the top is strong and holds heavy water soaked diapers very well.

Today, we don't hear much about heavy water.

Those differences are subtle, but there is something heavy water does that normal water can't.

The detector consists of 1,000 tonnes of ultra pure heavy water enclosed in a transparent plastic vessel measuring 12 metres across.

Individuals drank heavy water, which becomes incorporated into numerous synthetic processes making it possible for measurement of the rates at which different muscle components are being generated.

The combination of Vitamin C and heavy water gives the skin an instant glow.

At this point, I'm very willing to concede to anything that reduces or ends pesticide use and heavy water waste for growing.

The historical data find that water - cooled designs, including heavy water, are the cheapest.

On the other hand; larger and heavy water turbines interfere with the lives of aquatic animals and plants which is not a good thing for the complete ecosystem.

The warmer the water is near the location of the ice core, the higher the content of heavy water there will be in the core.

The isotope composition of water vapor, i.e. the ratio of light and heavy water molecules, provides insight into underlying mechanisms.

Process applications development such as heavy water production, hydrogen production, hydrogen recombination, and hydrogen compression

But by using a method based measurement of heavy water in the child's body we have found that LNS mainly increase lean mass, that is muscles and organs, which are important for immune function, survival and development.»

Then they studied the effect of ions on heavy water, whose hydrogen atoms are heavy isotopes (with an additional neutron in the nucleus).

Since neutrons traveling through heavy water split atoms more efficiently, less uranium should be needed to achieve a critical mass; that's the minimum amount of uranium required to start a spontaneous chain reaction of atoms splitting in rapid succession.

Alter the Arak heavy water reactor to support civilian, rather than military, usage.

Since then, DOE's three weapons labs have used supercomputer simulations to ensure the safety and reliability of the stockpile, along with replacing components — such as heavy water in thermonuclear bombs — that decay or degrade.

After the leak of heavy water at the Wolsong nuclear power plant, South Korea is reconsidering its plan to import an additional Candu - 9 model pressurized heavy - water nuclear reactor from Canada.

The Government of Canada could build on this momentum to develop an expanded MoU on civilian nuclear technology co-operation that includes research in pressurized heavy water reactor technology, nuclear medicine and other areas discussed by the prime ministers.

The original iintent was to find special properties in water, like heavy water.»

The temperature dependence of these thermodynamic response and correlation functions shows maxima at 229 kelvin for water and 233 kelvin for heavy water.

Most reactors of this type are known as pressurised heavy water reactors, favoured especially in Canada.

According to Dominik Nical, a Ford engineer in Germany, hundreds of test hours went into avoiding false triggers: heavy water flow from rain or carwashes, pets running or basketballs rolling under the car, or runaway shopping carts passing near the back bumper.

«Homer Was Swept Away» shows a classical Greek painting with heavy water damage in a bent frame, as if it had been swept away in a flood, while «George Washington Eroded» is a portrait of the first president, flaked, peeling and crumbling; it looks like the sort of thing archeologists from the year 3500 would extract from the ruins of what was the United States of America.»

For example, in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a 1000 ton heavy water solar - neutrino detector picks up about 1012 neutrinos each second.

The Germans were later able to rebuild their plant and resume making heavy water.

However, when asked to comment, one CEO said Canada is in a strong position because Candu reactors use heavy water instead of boiled or pressurized water, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium instead of enriched uranium fuel.

The snugger shape of the swim diaper means they don't fill up with a big puddle of heavy water when you lift baby out of the water, either.

Excess heavy water will be sold on the international market, not stockpiled.

Even today, when many people have at least a rudimentary understanding of atomic bombs and know that the source of their vast energy is the splitting of atoms, few have any idea what heavy water is or its role in splitting those atoms.

Each approach had its technological trade - offs, but the U.S. approach did not rely on having to synthesize the extremely scarce heavy water.

Early on, a number of young scientists set out to replicate the attention - grabbing findings of Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, and many of them did just that: They «verified» that Fleishmann and Pons had succeeded in achieving nuclear fusion by electrolyzing heavy water, he says.

The technique relies on incorporation of the heavy isotope into a thiol from a convenient heavy water source through acid - base chemistry.

Williams, who three years ago led a team at Harwell in Oxfordshire which failed to repeat Pons and Fleischmann's experiments, suggested that the rise in temperature might come from the oxidation of deuterium to form heavy water vapour.

The movement of water was demonstrated directly using deuterium - labeled heavy water.

Every second, more than a thousand billion of them pass through the heart of the SNO detector — 1,000 tonnes of heavy water surrounded by 10,000 electronic eyeballs called photomultipliers.

PHWRs are similar to PWRs, but use raw uranium rather than enriched uranium oxide as fuel, and deploy heavy water — in which hydrogen is replaced by deuterium — as both moderator and coolant.