Sentences with phrase «of about the hydrogen»

Nor was there any report that we know of about the hydrogen tank explosion that killed postdoc Meng Xiangjian at Tsinghua University in Beijing in December.

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EM: Just think about the little fuel tank that has the hydrogen in it, that is 2 millimetre across, about the size of a peppercorn.

Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from about 5 percent now.

Husky Energy in Superior is one of about 50 refineries in the country that still uses hydrogen fluoride to process high - octane gasoline, according to a 2013 report from the United Steelworkers Union.

But, more excitingly, each group, independently, is already finding a hint of a discovery at c. 125GeV (this is about 133 times the mass of the proton = hydrogen nucleus).

Since then, the Steady State Theory has been disproven, and the Big Bang Theory has been shown to be correct, vindicating a form of «Creationism», which not only explains «let there be light» (the early universe was dominated by radiation — light), but explains of separation of light and darkness — the decoupling era, about 300,000 earth years after the big bang, when the universe cooled below the ionization energy of hydrogen, allowing it to become transparent for the first time.

At the recommend daily intake of about 1 to 2 tablespoons, approximately 5 — 10 mg of hydrogen cyanide is released from flaxseed, which is well below the estimated acute toxic dose for an adult of 50 to 60 mg inorganic cyanide and below the 30 to 100 mg / d humans can routinely detoxify (Roseling 1994) Eating excessive amounts of flax seeds too quickly can cause mild digestive problems in some people.

So she tells stories about how she reached for a drink of water onstage and swallowed hydrogen peroxide instead, nearly throwing up on the audience.

It probably also depends on the reaction of China, which is probably not very happy about NK with hydrogen bombs but also not about the prospect of a war between NK and others.

At present, the density of ordinary baryons and radiation in the universe is estimated to be equivalent to about one hydrogen atom per cubic metre of space.

In the 1920s, scientists had predicted that there might be heftier versions of hydrogen floating about.

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Still, other teams have shown that the tiny tubes can hold about 4 % or so, close to the magic figure of 6.5 % that's needed for a viable hydrogen storage material.

Another major advantage the catalysts have is that, while they are general in what substrate they can oxidize, they are very specific about which carbon - hydrogen bonds they cut — so much so that they target a certain spot on amino acids like proline, leucine or valine even when they are part of a much larger peptide chain.

Theorists had predicted that about one in 10,000 of the solar wind's protons would snatch an electron from a passing neutral atom to become a neutral hydrogen atom itself.

In 2008, a cloud of hydrogen with a mass then estimated at about 1 million suns was found to be colliding with our galaxy.

«The exact number depends on how hard the solar wind is blowing,» says LENA team member Thomas Moore of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, but the team figures that indeed about one in 10,000 protons becomes a hydrogen atom en route to Earth.

Pulsars, according to conventional theory, are neutron stars with immense magnetic fields — about a trillion times the strength of Earth's — that funnel hydrogen pulled from their red - giant neighbor continuously down onto their magnetic poles.

The world consumes about 55 billion kilograms of hydrogen per year.

HERA will not be able to directly analyze the chemical composition of those early objects (such work is done with a technique called spectroscopy), but Hewitt said it will be possible to learn something about the characteristics of those early objects by studying their interaction with the hydrogen that surrounded them.

The Big Bang theory makes detailed predictions about the total number of ordinary atoms and about the relative abundance of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) and helium in the universe.

«To make a star like our Sun, you take the basic ingredients of hydrogen and helium from the Big Bang and add an enormous amount of iron — the equivalent of about 1,000 times the Earth's mass,» Dr Keller says.

About four billion years ago, the strength of those hydrogen - carbon bonds allowed increasingly complex molecules — amino acids, DNA, and proteins — to form from the primordial soup, making life possible.

Representing the 6,000 physicists who work on two separate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), called CMS and ATLAS, two spokespersons said that both experiments seemed to agree, as both their data sets suggested that the Higgs has a mass close to that of about 125 hydrogen atoms.

When they first sighted it about 40 years ago, they thought it was a not - quite - billion - year - old toddler brimming with hot young stars, full of hydrogen and helium and possessing very few heavy elements, called metals.

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula.

For perspective, the diameter of a hydrogen atom is about 1.0 Angstroms.

Kourosh Kalantar - Zadeh, an engineer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and his colleagues built plastic capsules about 2.5 centimeters long — about as long as a Jolly Rancher hard candy — that sniff out carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen gas molecules in the gut.

They were baffled about the source of the energy producing the hydrogen peroxide.

At the time our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, only about 39 % of the hydrogen and helium in our galaxy had collapsed into clouds that then evolved into stars, they say.

The instrument must be stable to within about one - tenth of a nanometer (1 angstrom to biologists, equivalent to the diameter of a hydrogen atom).

When they grew to about 10 times the mass of Earth, their gravity pulled in gas from their birth cloud, giving them thick atmospheres made mainly of hydrogen around their solid cores.

They could also store up to 1.7 % of their weight as hydrogen, about as much as carbon nanotubes could store.

Conventional approaches to compact hydrogen storage — compressing the gas to up to 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi) or cooling it down to cryogenic temperatures so that it liquefies (around 252 degrees Celsius)-- can attain only about half the energy density needed to fit enough fuel inside something the size of a gas tank.

If they are clouds, they're probably made of ethane, acetylene or hydrogen cyanide, based on what researchers have learned about Pluto's atmosphere — though they might not be clouds, just reflective splotches on

An easy - to - measure current density of one microampere per square centimeter corresponds a stream of about six trillion (6 × 10 ^ 12) single hydrogen atoms per second per square centimeter.

For about 150 million years after the Big Bang, the Universe was a «dark» place, made of just hydrogen and helium atoms, as the first stars had yet to be formed.

«Not only did we detect radio signals emitted by distant galaxies when the Universe was three billion years younger, but their gas reservoirs turned out to be unexpectedly large, about 10 times larger than the mass of hydrogen in our Milky Way.

The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

The reaction occurs in a liquid phase and proceeds at relatively low temperatures (about 200 degrees Celsius), unlike the costly current methods of extracting hydrogen from glucose that use pressurized steam.

It wasn't precisely confirmed until 1976, when a Scout D rocket carried a hydrogen - maser clock to an altitude of 10,000 kilometers, or about 6,000 miles.

The object studied here has a redshift of z = 5.913, i.e., the Lyman - alpha spectral line of hydrogen at 1216 angstrom (Å) at the rest frame is detected at 8406 Å, when the Universe was about one billion years old.

The older eruption is plowing a layer of glowing hydrogen gas from the center of NGC 5195, which sits about 26 million light - years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

These beasts, about 100 times the mass of the sun, were so large and energetic that they burned all their hydrogen fuel in just a few million years.

Based on measurements of Jupiter and the solar wind, which are thought to preserve the hydrogen isotopic ratio of the protosolar nebula, scientists think nebular water had an extremely light hydrogen isotopic signature — much closer to what the Baffin Island lavas suggest about the deep mantle's water.

During a stage of high temperature right after the Universe's birth about 14 billion years ago, the hydrogen atom was ionized, i.e., split into a nucleon and electron.

Subject to a surface temperature of about 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, oxygen and carbon are ripped away from the planet by lighter hydrogen gas and carried in a streaming halo behind it.

When the researchers studied other hydrogen - based materials, about one - third of the hydrogen atoms were missing there too.

We know that about 4.6 billion years ago, in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way, a dense cloud of hydrogen gas and dust began to collapse in on itself.

Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of about 40 or so hydrogen - fueled vehicles that have been built by the U.S. carmaker.