Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactions occurring»

Such experiments are extremely difficult because the nuclear reactions occur at a tiny rate and their signal is overwhelmed by the environmental background radiation.

HP: During the flood, many nuclear reactions occurred inside the fluttering crust and in the porous floor of the subterranean chamber.

Not exact matches

For instance, they were involved in debunking cold fusion in 1991, which was a hypothetical nuclear reaction that could occur around room temperature.

Sometimes, a few seconds after the fission occurs in a nuclear chain reaction, additional neutrons are released.

If enough material, mostly in the form of hydrogen gas, accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, nuclear fusion reactions can occur and intensify, culminating into a cosmic - sized hydrogen bomb blast.

In the movie, a «chain reaction» occurred, but it was difficult to determine if this was a nuclear chain reaction or just a big hydrogen explosion.

When a neutrino traveling through the earth collides with an atom in a molecule of ice, a little nuclear reaction can occur, producing blue light.

But direct measurements of these nuclear reactions are extremely difficult because they occur at a tiny rate in the laboratory.

Over a 10 - year period from 1989, US navy labs ran more than 200 experiments to investigate whether nuclear reactions generating more energy than they consume — supposedly only possible inside stars — can occur at room temperature.

But experimental research, and the illuminating Widom - Larsen theory, show otherwise: Nuclear reactions can also occur in small, benchtop experiments.

Aug. 7, 2017 - Most of the nuclear reactions that drive the nucleosynthesis of the elements in our universe occur in very extreme stellar plasma conditions.

As long as the chemical and physical (and nuclear, etc.) reactions that do occur are occuring slowly enough for energy to be redistributed among particles, LTE can be approximately maintained.

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