Sentences with phrase «hydrogen atoms into»

After a star has formed, it generates energy at its hot, dense core through the fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium.

Magnetized Linear inertial Fusion (MagLIF) combines powerful laser light with strong magnetic fields to fuse hydrogen atoms into helium nuclei.

He and his colleagues slammed a beam of heavy hydrogen atoms into a cloud composed of more heavy hydrogen.

Unlike the sun, which generates energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium, RR Lyrae stars have already used up all the hydrogen in their core and are fusing helium into carbon instead.

• Stars like the sun produce energy by fusing two hydrogen atoms into a single helium atom.

This is a factory process that takes a fat, probably a cheap polyunsaturated one, and forces an extra hydrogen atom into it.

Not exact matches

On the blackboard, fusing hydrogen atoms produces enormous amounts of heat which can be captured and developed into an energy source, energy that is safe, cheap, does not burn fossil fuels or consume non-renewable resources.

Rather, this reduction assumes a theory of cosmic evolution or cosmogeny and in addition two kinds of pre-established harmony in order to allow sleeping potentialities, or relative propensities of low probability built into the hydrogen atom to become activated.

Pagels (1984) points out that if the relative masses of protons and neutrons were different by a small fraction of 1 per cent, making the proton heavier than the neutron, hydrogen atoms would be unstable since the protons that constitute their nuclei would spontaneously decay into neutrons.

Then, list 2 effects that would be expected upon substi - tuting an electron with a muon in a helium atom when mixed into a hydrogen cloud.

Then, summarize the effects that would be expected upon subst - ituting an electron with a muon in a helium atom when mixed into a hydrogen cloud.

Collisions with hydrogen atoms in the lunar regolith reduce the numbers of epithermal neutrons that fly into space.

As for what they were doing, once the universe was cool enough to form hydrogen atoms, it was also cool enough for those elements to start interacting with each other and combining into molecules.

Clumpiness begot more clumpiness, as gravity pulled more matter into these dense regions, and clouds of gas, composed mostly of hydrogen atoms, began to assemble.

As hydrocarbon gases sink toward their cores, increasing pressure squeezes out the hydrogen atoms and presses the remaining carbon into diamond, which travels through the planet's heart as very pricey precipitation.

The hydrogen atoms fuse together into heavier and heavier elements and in the fusion process the star emits radiation in the form of light, that is, energy.

Unlike water or regular ice, in superionic ice the water molecules dissociate into charged atoms called ions, with the oxygen ions locked in a solid lattice, while the hydrogen ions move like the molecules in a liquid.

MRIs work by tapping into an astonishing phenomenon: When placed in a powerful magnetic field, the hydrogen atoms in water molecules behave like small bar magnets.

Alternatively, the water at Cabeus may have been created when hydrogen atoms carried by the solar wind slammed into oxygen - rich materials in the lunar surface.

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.

When surrounded by deuterium atoms (heavy hydrogen), that voltage gives the atoms an electric charge and then accelerates them into a nearby solid target containing additional deuterium.

The second - stage reaction strips off the fatty acids» carboxyl group (a carbon atom, two oxygen atoms, and a hydrogen atom) and breaks the remaining hydrocarbon chains into smaller fragments, yielding a light oil.

The sun makes energy by fusing hydrogen atoms, each with one proton, into helium atoms, which contain two protons.

With no nuclear fusion to sustain them, they collapse into Earth - size balls of tightly bound carbon and oxygen nuclei with an outer layer of hydrogen plasma (disrupted atoms).

Ethanol is such a small, simple molecule — just two carbon atoms, six hydrogens, and a spare oxygen — that it pours directly out of the stomach and small intestine into the bloodstream.

During that reaction, 0.007 percent of the mass of the hydrogen atoms is converted into energy, via Einstein's famous e = mc2 equation.

To test this, Laricchia's team fired positronium atoms at 1100 to 4400 kilometres per second into various gases, including hydrogen, krypton and water vapour.

One of the simplest ways of obtaining hydrogen is electrolysis: an electric current splits water molecules into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

The lander would refuel on the space station, and would utilize liquid hydrogen fuel, which would come from water molecules broken into their composite oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

Hydrogen atoms are formed in such devices only when electrons flow into a fluid where they can combine with hydrogen ions; those atoms in turn combine with each other to create hydroHydrogen atoms are formed in such devices only when electrons flow into a fluid where they can combine with hydrogen ions; those atoms in turn combine with each other to create hydrohydrogen ions; those atoms in turn combine with each other to create hydrogenhydrogen gas.

During a stage of high temperature right after the Universe's birth about 14 billion years ago, the hydrogen atom was ionized, i.e., split into a nucleon and electron.

But the small telescope may be better at looking even farther into the past than the larger arrays, allowing it to look at hydrogen atoms heated by the very first stars, Bowman says.

But Catling's team proposes instead that the hydrogen escaped into space through a process called methane photolysis, in which the hydrogen - containing methane reacts with oxygen such that hydrogen atoms are freed.

Instead of reacting together on the surface of the catalyst (the palladium cluster), the hydrogen atoms dissociate into their components — protons and electrons.

Featured on the journal's cover is an image that depicts their findings: Instead of reacting together on the surface of the catalyst (the palladium cluster), the hydrogen atoms dissociate into their components — protons and electrons.

As the water boiled away, the hydrogen escaped into interstellar space while the oxygen came back down and bonded with carbon atoms.

Building on a 1981 proposal by three Russian theorists and more recent work that brought that proposal into the realm of possibility, the team first fired two lasers at hydrogen atoms inside a chamber, kicking off electrons at speeds and directions that depended on their underlying wave functions.

Zapped by radio waves, hydrogen atoms lose their electrons and are transformed into a plasma as hot as the sun.

At the center of the cloud, matter would pile up to densities and temperatures that (scientists later realized) were high enough to allow hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium.

Scientists suspect water on the surface of Mars evaporates, rises into the upper atmosphere, breaks into hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and is then swept into outer space by the solar wind.

In the case of the negative ion source, the small amount of cesium is injected into the ion source and the cesium - adsorbed surface of the so - called «plasma electrode» become activated to transfer the electron to hydrogen atoms and hydrogenous positive ions that are colliding on the surface.

Perhaps, the scientists thought, the bubbles would get so big that their collapse would produce temperatures near 10 million degreeshot enough to cause a few deuterium atoms in the acetone to fuse into helium or tritium (hydrogen with two extra neutrons).

[See http://bit.ly/aP4HCN] The scientists are working on ways to recombine the protons and electrons back into hydrogen atoms and then molecules of H2.

At that level, even the tiniest atoms — hydrogen and helium — come into view.

But the hydrogen's dissolution can be controlled by doping that layer — that is, by introducing atoms of another element or elements into it.

The presence of the sugar molecules jostling the atom have the effect of «observing» it, they argue, forcing the hydrogen to snap into one position, just as measuring the state of any quantum particle will fix it to one set location.

He knew he needed to find metals that were deft at breaking the carbon - hydrogen bonds that are at the heart of methane, ethane, and propane, short hydrocarbons known as alkanes, and then add in oxygen atoms that would transform the alkanes into alcohols.

Those reactions weave the simple atoms of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen into complex organic molecules.

In particular, a charged molecule called hydronium, which has three hydrogen atoms and one oxygen ion, can transform into water (plus an independent hydrogen atom) if it captures a free - floating electron.

That's because the iron oxide would have incorporated the water's oxygen atoms into its structure, while the free hydrogen left behind would have floated out to space.