Sentences with phrase «of a degree above»

Second, South Florida's average August 2017 temperature was four - tenths of a degree above normal.

A BEC is one - millionth to one - billionth of a degree above absolute zero, a temperature found only in the laboratory.

This tugs at nearby rubidium atoms which have been chilled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero: a positive charge on the surface of the nanotubes attracts the rubidium atoms» electrons, while the positively charged nucleus is repelled.

Both atoms were cooled to less than one ten - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

Absolute zero can not be reached experimentally, but scientists have cooled small samples of atoms to just one ten - billionth of a degree above absolute zero.

A cooling unit circulates liquid helium around the seven - foot - high, nine - foot - wide cylindrical icebox, chilling the detectors to just 50 thousandths of a degree above -459 degrees Fahrenheit: absolute zero.

Working out of a lab in WSU's Webster Hall, physicist Peter Engels and his colleagues cooled about one million atoms of rubidium to 100 billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

In the new project, physicists enhanced that trick by chilling a gas of sodium atoms to within 50 billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

When cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, atoms are easier to control, and their quantum properties come to the fore.

Researchers in the Nanoscale Science Department conduct their experiments in this instrument at lowest temperatures of a fifteen thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

The temperature was down at around a fifteen thousandth of a degree above absolute zero (i.e. at minus 273.135 °C or 15 mK) before the scientists saw that the electric current consists of individual electrons.

It cools circuits made of the rare metal niobium to five - thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.

Hudson's laboratory used laser light to cool tiny amounts of the reactant atoms and molecules to an extremely low temperature — one one - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and then levitate them in a space smaller than the width of a human hair, inside of a vacuum chamber.

She cooled potassium atoms to — 459 degrees Fahrenheit, just 50 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, and trapped them in a vacuum.

They found that the back - and - forth swings of a torsional oscillator filled with solid helium - 4 sped up as the temperature was lowered to below two - tenths of a degree above absolute zero — just as would be expected if a supersolid were forming inside.

At two - tenths of a degree above absolute zero, for example, the helium - 4 condenses into a solid crystal — and may even turn into a «supersolid,» a strange quantum state in which some of the atoms seem to pass through others without friction.

After removing one of the atom's electrons, researchers trapped the atom using electric fields and cooled it to less than a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero -LRB--- 273.15 ° Celsius) by hitting it with laser light.

Now Hulet and his colleagues cooled both lithium - 6 and lithium - 7 atoms to temperatures around 240 nanokelvins, less than one fourth of a millionth of a degree above absolute zero.

Bakr and his team cooled lithium atoms to just a few ten - billionths of a degree above absolute zero, a temperature where the atoms follow the laws of quantum physics.

The researchers use a quantum gas microscope to image the atoms, which have been cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and trapped in place using lasers.

Using atoms cooled to just billionths of a degree above absolute zero, a team led by researchers at Princeton University has discovered an intriguing magnetic behavior that could help explain how high - temperature superconductivity works.

To observe spin waves, McGuirk and physicists Heather Lewandowski and Dave Harber started with a cloud of rubidium atoms chilled to fractions of a degree above absolute zero.

The experiment monitors germanium detectors, cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, for subtle vibration and ionization effects that would be produced by WIMPs colliding with germanium nuclei.

To see dynamical tunneling in action, two teams — one based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, the other at the University of Texas, Austin — first used a complicated series of laser beams and magnetic fields to cool atoms of cesium or sodium to a temperature of a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

Their «gravito - magnetic trap» cooled the gas to — 459.67, less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, the point at which all the molecular movement halts and our heat - vision eyes see only black.

Killian said the new molecules are only stable at extraordinarily cold temperatures — about a millionth of a degree above absolute zero.

That temperature is impressive because it was thought that cooling an object down to fractions of a degree above absolute zero was the only way to keep its atoms from jostling each other and destroying entanglement's delicate links, or coherence.

To create a more precise atomic clock, Ludlow's team first used green and blue lasers to cool bundles of ytterbium atoms to 10 millikelvin, or within 10 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.

Crucially, unlike the network of atoms normally used to simulate electron behaviour, atomic clocks work at the relatively balmy temperatures of millionths of a degree above absolute zero.

Electrons» behaviour inside solids can be physically modelled using networks of atoms cooled to trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.

It will be hooked to a dilution refrigerator set at 10 - to - 50 milli - Kelvins, a temperature more than 50 times colder than deep space and a small fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

View of the dilution refrigerator that will lower temperature to a small fraction of a degree above absolute zero when connected.

Cool it further — to about a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and it becomes a «superfluid» that can flow without resistance from its surroundings.

The pioneering 12 - metre APEX telescope allows astronomers to study the cold Universe: gas and dust only a few tens of degrees above absolute zero.

A 122F day in July seems (to me) much more unlikely than an 83F day in March, even though they are the same number of degrees above average.

If the temperature goes a couple of degrees ABOVE normal, you have been real sharp and caught a beginning problem and you need to call your veterinarian right away.

However, to make things a little more interesting this time around, a new battle system of sorts has been implemented that really opens up combat by levels of degrees above previous entries in the series.

Here in Minnesota we're having weeks of weather with highs and lows dozens of degrees above normal, records not just being broken, but blown completely out of the water.

Yet this predicted record would be only one hundredth of a degree above 2010 and two hundredths of a degree above 2005 — with an error range of one tenth of a degree.

But when cooling helium down to a millionth of a degree above absolute zero, they use every tool they can get.

In fact July may be right down around normal, to up around a fifth of a degree above normal, «world wide.»

However, in horticulture in more temperate climes we have a rule of thumb: we sum the number of degrees above 10C during the growing season and we know that when the required degree days have been reached our crop will be mature.

By the time 21st century arrives HadCRUT3 is floating happily a tenth of a degree above the satellite temperature curve.

Although this water is only warm in a relative sense, just a couple of degrees above freezing, it can melt away the ice at an astonishing rate — up to 100 meters per year.

A 122F day in July seems (to me) much more unlikely than an 83F day in March, even though they are the same number of degrees above average.

The first is the heat death of the universe due to the second law of thermodynamics; hot flows to cold until the entire universe is just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

Not exact matches

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 10 degrees above their plane.

«I think that played into greater degree of effect in Midwestern states where, generally speaking, pretty educated populace, above average income nationally,» he said.

By the end of this century, heat waves are forecast to become more commonplace, with high temperatures at airports around the globe predicted to soar anywhere from 7.2 to 14.4 degrees above current levels by 2080, according to the study.

The Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.