«Moving this «atomic finger» back and forth over the silver surface is like reading Braille, as if we were feeling the small atomic - scale bumps
made by the atoms.»
Not exact matches
Their reaction is created
by colliding two plasma balls
made of hydrogen
atom cores at one million miles per hour.
God so commands all orbital velocities inwardly from the lowly
atoms and even outwardly toward issues of all that is
made celestially orbital... Our humanoid embodiments of orbital
atoms are merely buildings structured just so to be inhabited
by godly generations on a scalar dimension unequaled in the inward depths and breadths of spatial reciprocity...
They're
made up of
atoms, and
atoms are mostly space inhabited
by bits off energy flying around in their orbits.
How can any man look at the universe from the sheer size to the unseen
atom and say «we just happened
by chance, from cosmic goo...» That sure takes a lot of faith — to
make something from nothing, especially life.
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.
The events that
make up the hydrogen and oxygen
atoms are affected
by their environments.
And how blind does a person have to be to consider a massive, molecular database filled with data and knowledge beyond our present full comprehension that is
made up of 104 billion
atoms, (the human DNA molecule) and even consider for a moment scientifically that it came about
by unguided chemical means.
Just as the discovery that sodium chloride has properties not exhibited
by sodium and chlorine in isolation tells us something about the nature of sodium and chlorine which we could not otherwise know, so too the existence of subjectivity in combinations of
atoms that
make human brains tells us something about the nature of those
atoms that
make those brains.
Lewontin, Rose and Kamin discuss the different levels at which
atoms assemble to
make molecules, molecules assemble to
make cells and so on: «as one moves up a level the properties of each larger whole are given not merely
by the units of which it is composed but of the organizing relations between them... these organizing relationships mean that the properties of matter relevant at one level are just inapplicable at other levels» (NG 278).
The complex pattern of memories, aspirations and actions which
make up a character were carried for a time
by the
atoms of her body, but we believe they are also stored up in the Cloud of God's being.
For the first time, researchers have
made a molecule simply
by pressing two
atoms together and
making them bond on command.
Typically, chemists
make molecules
by mixing up many constituent
atoms, some of which stick to each other to form the desired compounds.
For the first time, we've
made a molecule
by pressing two
atoms together to
make them bond on command.
Although skyrmions are
made up of
atoms, which remain stationary within the material, skyrmions can move around like a true particle,
by sliding from one group of
atoms to another.
In principle, the wave function, denoted
by Greek letter psi, can be used to reveal these energy levels for any given
atom or molecule, although in practice this has only been done for the very simplest — the hydrogen
atom and molecule (
made of two hydrogen
atoms bonded together).
It could ball up into dark stars surrounded
by dark planets
made of dark
atoms.
The atomic size and structure of nitrogen
make it an excellent choice for this purpose because it can fit naturally into a strong network of carbon
atoms by creating bonds (sp2) in which electrons are shared
by the whole network.
We are
made of
atoms, which are held together
by the attraction of opposite electrical charges.
The condensate, which is
made from around 4000 cooled rubidium
atoms, is trapped inside the beams
by the same forces used to create optical tweezers, which can manipulate particles on a small scale.
This region is
made up of hydrogen plasma, a gas of
atoms whose electrons have been stripped away
by the ferocious temperature, leaving just protons behind.
Although there are no naturally occurring antimatter
atoms, in 1995 physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva cobbled together a few
atoms of antihydrogen
by linking a positron to an antiproton and have since
made tens of thousands more.
One, recently developed
by a Hewlett - Packard team, is a «crossbar latch» circuit
made of platinum and titanium wires that are only a few dozen
atoms in diameter.
Buckyballs,
made of 60 carbon
atoms arranged in a geodesic sphere — the shape
made famous
by the inventor — have been found beyond our galaxy, suggesting they abound in space.
The sun
makes energy
by fusing hydrogen
atoms, each with one proton, into helium
atoms, which contain two protons.
Photons don't normally
make friends, but now three have been bound together into a brand - new form of light
by tricking them into acting like
atoms
Ion engines work
by stripping electrons from the
atoms of an inert gas such as xenon,
making them positively charged.
Led
by physicist Roberto Serra of the Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil, the experimenters manipulated molecules of chloroform, which are
made of carbon, hydrogen and chlorine
atoms.
This dual state would
make it possible to control the motion of the electrons exposed to the electric field of both the nucleus and the laser, and would let the physicists to create
atoms with «new,» tunable
by light, electronic structure.
Because chlorine is only weakly bonded to carbon, it can be easily substituted
by another
atom to
make a new molecule.
He has proposed a strange, intriguing scenario in which gravity is transmitted
by a particle, called a fat graviton, that could be as large as one two - hundreth of an inch wide — enormous compared with the particles that
make up
atoms.
Just 160
atoms have been
made to combine
by tying themselves into the smallest version of the pentafoil knot ever
made.
To do so they
made the
atoms in the sample vibrate
by shining a laser beam through a small hole in the photodetector, which was placed right on top of the sample.
In 2010, a Russian and US team first
made element 117
by firing calcium
atoms — which have atomic number 20 — into berkelium, which has atomic number 97.
An international team of researchers has proposed a new way to
make atoms or ions indistinguishable
by swapping their positions.
In the late 1990s, Arthur Nozik of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, theorized that if the semiconductors were
made out of nanoparticles, they could excite multiple electrons with less photon energy, because less of the incoming energy would be sapped
by vibrating
atoms in the crystalline lattice.
In the 1990s, a team led
by Nobel laureate Steven Chu
made an «atomic fountain» of caesium
atoms, launching them 30...
For the last 100 years, they have done that mostly
by making and breaking the strong covalent bonds that form when
atoms share electrons.
To
make their engine, the researchers first enclosed the ion (a calcium
atom with one electron removed) inside an 8 - millimeter - long funnel - shaped electrical trap created
by four electrodes.
The hitch, so far, has been that the most promising tubes — single - walled nanotubes (SWNTs), consisting of one layer of carbon
atoms arrayed like rolled - up chicken wire — can be
made only
by the thimbleful and can cost up to $ 2000 a gram.
Practical
by nature, Johnson had already begun to wonder if he could actually
make something with
atoms, as opposed to merely puzzling over ghostly traces of their constituents on a linear accelerator's plates.
Nevertheless, the researchers headed
by Mariya Ivanova have
made some significant progress:
by inserting foreign
atoms into the crystal lattice, their membrane is more stable and can be used at lower temperatures.
The MOF under study was
made up of pyramidal molecular frameworks, each consisting of a zinc
atom surrounded
by four cyclical, organic molecules called imidazolates.
The universe was cold and black — a sea of hydrogen and helium
atoms mixed with a mysterious dark form of matter
making its presence known only
by its gravity.
The simplest molecule, resembling a dumbbell, is
made up of two
atoms connected
by electromagnetic forces.
An «NV -» center can be created within a diamond's scaffold - like structure
by replacing a missing carbon
atom with a nitrogen
atom (N) that has trapped an electron
making the center negatively charged.
Created
by essentially strapping a hacked Kinect to an iRobot Create (a sort of blank Roomba platform used
by robotics developers) along with a gutted Intel
Atom computer, the KinectBot uses the Kinect bar's 3D sensors in ways that'd
make an ordinary Roomba hopelessly jealous.
Statistical mechanics: James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, J. Willard Gibbs, late 19th century
By explaining heat in terms of the statistical behavior of
atoms and molecules, statistical mechanics
made sense of thermodynamics and also provided strong evidence for the reality of
atoms.
The magnetic field, which may be generated
by the planet's core, is connected to the winds because of high temperatures stripping electrons from atmospheric
atoms of lithium, sodium and potassium,
making them positively charged.
Beyond inventions that revolutionized daily life, Bell Lab scientists
made fundamental discoveries — such as the wave nature of matter and the microwave background radiation from the big bang — earning six Nobel Prizes including the one shared in 1997
by Secretary Chu for a method of trapping
atoms with lasers.