Sentences with phrase «of hydrogen plasma»

The sun is emitting plumes of hydrogen plasma.
With no nuclear fusion to sustain them, they collapse into Earth - size balls of tightly bound carbon and oxygen nuclei with an outer layer of hydrogen plasma (disrupted atoms).
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.

Not exact matches

In 2011 General Fusion had what at first looked like a successful test of its plasma injector, a funnel - shaped machine where plasma is created from super-heated hydrogen gas.
More precisely, it's composed of plasma, super-heated gas made up of hydrogen's constituent isotopes, deuterium and tritium — the smallest and most basic atoms.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor program in the south of France will use magnetic fusion and employ strong magnetic fields to hold and fuse hydrogen plasma.
Based on previous research and work in the field of plasma physics, the two former Creo laser printing employees believe they can build a reactor to fuse hydrogen atoms together by pneumatically - driven pistons and produce enormous increases in energy.
Molecular dynamics studies of electron - ion temperature equilibration in hydrogen plasmas within the coupled - mode regime
In 2015, they held super-heated hydrogen plasma in a stable state for 5 milliseconds, which is a huge deal in the world of fusion research.
Their reaction is created by colliding two plasma balls made of hydrogen atom cores at one million miles per hour.
Again, astronomy appears to be a «useless» subject, but has yielded a number of practical results, from the discovery of helium to the theories of the properties of gas plasma currently important in hydrogen fusion projects.
In the worm, only harmless concentrations of hydrogen peroxide are generated and this process occurs at different rates at both sides of the plasma membrane.
Newman, who as a teen developed a fascination with turbulence as a rafting guide in Colorado, arrived at Oak Ridge in 1993 to explore a different kind of turbulence: the plasma of fusing hydrogen atoms inside experimental fusion reactors.
The device consists of a doughnut - shaped reactor called a tokamak, wrapped in superconducting magnets that squeeze and heat a plasma of hydrogen isotopes to the point of fusion.
Meanwhile, fusion researchers in Japan and the United States have produced temperatures above 900 million ° F in plasmas of deuterium and tritium, which are isotopes of hydrogen.
Now that Winget has performed more than 30 simulations, astronomers can start using his measurements of how hydrogen plasmas absorb and emit light in the lab to make sense of actual white dwarfs.
Under laboratory conditions it is the two hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — that fuse most readily when held as a plasma at temperatures of several hundred million degrees.
Shot into both ends of a tiny gold capsule filled with two frozen hydrogen isotopes, this powerful blast will create plasma around the pea - size target in the center of the capsule.
Twelve scientific divisions are investigating confinement of high - temperature hydrogen plasmas in magnetic fields, heating of plasmas, plasma diagnostics, magnetic field technology, data acquisition and processing, plasma theory, materials research, plasma - wall interaction, and systems studies.
It needs to be: seven of these loops will be stacked on top of each other to form one of the many magnets that will confine and direct hydrogen plasma at up to 100 million °C in the reactor vessel.
The cloud consists of ionized gas, or plasma, and contains the elements hydrogen, helium, and oxygen, along with heavier elements that were generated during the blast itself.
The experimental fusion reactors now being built around the world use a fuel composed of a plasma of two isotopes of hydrogen — deuterium and tritium.
This had been predicted as a relic from when hot ionized plasma of the early universe first cooled sufficiently to form neutral hydrogen and allow space to become transparent to light, and its discovery led to general acceptance among physicists that the Big Bang is the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe.
These fields will do double duty: They will heat a cloud of hydrogen to the searing temperature required for fusion while forcing the resulting plasma to sit in a ring - shaped cloud away from the tokamak's walls.
Fusion reactors heat and squeeze a plasma — an ionized gas — composed of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, compressing the isotopes until their nuclei overcome their mutual repulsion and fuse together.
The team thinks one reason their technique is so efficient is that a chemical reaction between the hydrogen plasma and air molecules in the chamber's atmosphere generates cyano radicals — carbon - nitrogen molecules that have been stripped of their electrons.
Most fusion research focuses on magnetic confinement, using powerful electromagnets to contain a thin plasma of hydrogen isotopes and heat it until the nuclei fuse.
The aim of ITER is to show that, in theory, nuclei of deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen) can be fused in a searingly hot plasma at the heart of the reactor, thereby releasing large quantities of heat that could be used to generate power.
In the early universe, stars and galaxies formed as molecular hydrogen cooled and deflated a primordial plasma of hydrogen and helium.
The breakthrough is in magnetic confinement fusion, in which hydrogen is heated until it is a plasma 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, and held in place by strong magnetic fields until fusion reactions occur.
Focus fusion is initiated when a pulse of electricity is discharged through a hydrogen - boron gas across two nesting cylindrical electrodes, transforming the gas into a thin sheath of hot, electrically conducting plasma.
Though less dense and cooler than the hydrogen of a fusion reactor, the wind is a plasma — and can be probed thanks to STEREO.
With massive electromagnets attached to the exterior of the plasma chamber, his team can lead the hydrogen gas plasma as easily as a pup on a leash, harnessing 1 million degrees of energy to a single unalterable goal: powering a spacecraft to Mars and beyond.
In addition to achieving success in improving the performance of the negative hydrogen ion source, we clarified experimentally detailed physical phenomena related to negative ion source plasma by using numerous diagnostics to investigate negative ion source plasma from numerous directions.
In the case of the negative ion source, the small amount of cesium is injected into the ion source and the cesium - adsorbed surface of the so - called «plasma electrode» become activated to transfer the electron to hydrogen atoms and hydrogenous positive ions that are colliding on the surface.
«If we go up four or five times in size and switch to a fuel with a mix of deuterium and tritium,» another type of heavy hydrogen, «we should have break - even plasma conditions — if things work out.»
Development of neutral beam injection (NBI) heating system utilizing a hydrogen / deuterium (H / D) negative ion source, is significant for a fusion plasma reactor, which is one of the potential solutions to future energy - resource problems.
A type of wave that can exist in a plasma (such as the region of space above Earth's aurora), which vibrates at an ion cyclotron frequency that corresponds to the ion type present (oxygen, helium, hydrogen, etc.).
The extremely high temperatures — hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius — cause fusion to occur between hydrogen atoms in the plasma, releasing tons of energy.
Tully runs a prototype lab in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) that draws on the fact that neutrinos can be captured by tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, and provide a tiny boost of energy to the electrons emitted in tritium decay.
They routinely create hot plasma jets and gas bubbles that are thought to prevent the cooling of galaxies and regulate the formation of stars, which requires cold hydrogen gas as a building block.
Thats insane thinking, you would need super massive objects made of hydrogen atom based mass to construct that in the primordial age, in you model get real, that CCM are quantum particle magnetically bound plasma of electrons and positrons, made from super massive stars, and now your claiming that primordial black holes were invented before stars, what are you smoking Maui volcanic weed
There, the plasma will be compressed to the point where heavy hydrogen fuses into helium and releases an immense amount of heat.
C. Carreau, ASPERA - 4 & MAG teams, Venus Express, ESA Annotated image illustrating loss of hydrogen through plasma wake Venus may have lost oceans of water due to a runaway greenhouse effect which evaporated water into the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet light dissociated water into ionized atomic hydrogen and oxygen (some later incorporated into carbon dioxide) that were blown away by the Solar wind due to the lack of a strong magnetic field like the Earth's (more).
In one version of an MTF reactor — a machine that some believe «might save the world» 126 — a plasma of heavy hydrogen will be injected into the center of a 10 - foot - diameter metal sphere containing spinning liquid metal.
Fusion energy is based on the same process that takes place in the sun, where gravity holds together the hot ionized gas called a plasma and nuclei of hydrogen collide together often enough that they occasionally overcome forces keeping them apart, called the Coulomb forces, to fuse together and create a burst of energy, Synakowski explained.
Its next task will be to extend the duration of the plasma and to do research to prepare for the first plasma from hydrogen fuel.
That blistering heat stripped light - emitting electrons from the hydrogen atoms in the plasma, eliminating light as a source of information about the atomic nuclei, or ions, in the plasma and creating the need for a new diagnostic tool.
Another sign of progress on the road to fusion energy was the Feb. 3 celebration of the first hydrogen plasma at the Wendelstein 7 - X stellarator in Greifswald, Germany, Synakowski said.
As the plasma cooled and the universe expanded, neutral hydrogen (the most basic atom consisting of a proton and an electron) started to form approximately 370,000 years after our universe sparked to life.
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