Sentences with phrase «measure radioactive elements»
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As Japanese officials caution the Fukushima region about low levels of radioactive elements in soil and plants, researchers develop devices to more easily measure exposure levels
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Researchers bored a microscopic hole into it with a laser and measured traces of radioactive elements within.
«The radionuclide ratios we measured in the sediments and the rates of decay and growth of radioactive elements in the impacted sediments allowed us to essentially age - date the contamination to after 2011,» she explained.
By measuring the amount of radioactive elements inside Earth, the detector can study how the planet formed.
Based on dating of radioactive elements measured by scientists at the Swiss research center ETH Zurich, the ice at the base of the core may be at least 600,000 years old.
The evidence of its existence would be revealed by measuring how the axis of nuclei of the radioactive elements radon and radium line up with the spin.
Researchers reconstructed Arctic circulation through deep time by measuring radioactive trace elements buried in sediments on the Arctic seafloor.
We would generally not be able to measure strontium or plutonium or other radioactive elements if we could not detect cesium because these other elements would be present in such minute amounts that our instruments are not capable of detecting them.
SImple experiment: put a sample of a radioactive element (which has a measured temperature) inside of a Dewar flask and measure if the temperature of the radioactive element rises as a result of radiative reflection from the inner walls of the flask.