Sentences with phrase «into smaller nuclei»
Most of the total Uranium - 235 breaks down into smaller nuclei during fission.
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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.
SPHERE • • of the star collapsed into a singularity • • • • of the planets - and the atomic nucleus • • • • of The Planets by Gustav Holst, and the Harmony of the spheres • • • • of the very large and the very, very small coming together without beginning or end • •
A millisecond after the Big Bang occurred, neutrons and protons formed and began to fuse into small atomic nuclei.
RNA messages are copies of small snippets of DNA that move out of the cell nucleus to be converted into proteins.
When Cox and colleagues infused oxytocin specifically into the nucleus accumbens, a small brain region implicated in drug addiction, they found that it had the same effects as when they administered it systemically.
Specifically, they measured hydrogen and its isotope, deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron in its nucleus) with ion microprobes, which use a focused beam of ions to sputter ions from a small rock sample into a mass spectrometer.
«As you go into smaller structures of matter, inside the atomic nucleus, processes become even faster,» Krausz says.
Fusion is the opposite of fission, which frees energy when an atom like uranium splits into two smaller atomic nuclei.
The team fired beryllium nuclei at a small carbon target and analysed the debris that shot into surrounding particle detectors.
Short - periodic Neptune - like planets are close or below this limit, and consequently transform into smaller and denser planets, whose transit detection still eludes us in most cases, CoRoT - 7b being the first possible member of the remaining population of nuclei of gas - planets that have undergone significant evaporation.
The DNA in our cells is folded into millions of small packets, like beads on a string, allowing our two - meter linear DNA genomes to fit into a nucleus of only about 0.01 mm in diameter.
«The energy of a coherent driver [the electron beam] is equal to only a small part of the total energy released in the process of transformation of nuclei of the target [electrode] into nuclei of the synthesized isotopes.
It acts as a caspase inhibitor, which means it could prevent the dangerous huntingtin protein from being broken into small enough fragments to enter the cell's nucleus and mess up the switching on and off of important genes.
Unlike typical eukaryotic organisms, Tetrahymena has two nuclei — a micronucleus that contains normal chromosomes and a macronucleus whose chromosomes are fragmented into thousands of small pieces of DNA that all encode the same ribosomal RNA gene.