Sentences with phrase «of small amounts of energy»

But LUX scientists have also calibrated the detector's response to the deposition of small amounts of energy by struck atomic electrons.

Not exact matches

That isn't to say we don't need small amounts of vitamins to survive — without vitamins like A, C, and E, for example, we have a hard time turning food into energy and can develop conditions like rickets or scurvy.

At dispute is an alleged deficit that amounts to less than two per cent of $ 630 billion (U.S.) in annual Canada-U.S. trade, and the final result can be made or broken by a small shift in energy prices and currency values.

Since Australians pay world prices for energy and materials (albeit with smaller taxes added than Europeans), as users we face this same apparent backward shift in the supply curve in that part of the economy: it costs more now to use the same amount of these inputs as before.

Given the amount of time and energy expended on finding even a single god, I estimate the probably of there being any gods as very small, virtually zero, but I can not rule out the possibility that such a being might exist somewhere in the universe, or even outside it.

Hi Kitty, I never cut them out completely, I do still enjoy peanuts every so often, especially as each energy ball has quite a small amount of peanuts.

So whether you eat two big meals or five smaller meals per day, as long as the caloric content and macronutrient distribution remains the same, at the end of the day, you'll have burned an equivalent amount of energy digesting your meals.

They're packed with pretty much everything you need to start your day: carbs for energy, fiber to keep you full, protein to fuel your body and a very small amount of sugar so that mid-morning crash doesn't hit with force.

When it comes to Boulud's attention to the details of his empire, there appears to be no hierarchy of importance: The invite list to the upcoming soft opening in Vegas; the amount of cream in the pâté grand - mère used in a banh mi at the Épicerie; a visit to actor Bryan Cranston lunching at Bar Boulud; a call to a high - profile pediatrician on behalf of two married employees with a constipated infant; what to do with a shipment of fresh herring; the placement of speakers in a corner of the dining room at DBGB; the lighting of a photo shoot for a cookbook he's contributed to — all things big and small are apparently in Boulud's portfolio, and everything receives an equal share of energy and time.

The result of this sustainable practice is renewable energy in the form of methane gas, carbon dioxide, and a small amount of hydrogen sulfite.

Currently relatively small amounts of energy are consumed from this category (i.e., 4 % in adults and 5.5 % in children).

The small amounts of «milk» they receive from their mothers in these early days, called colostrum, offers high levels of protective immunological benefits and sugars for energy and prepare the baby for the larger volume of milk that comes in by the third or fourth day of life.

Keep an eye on your child's energy levels; even if he is eating only small amounts of healthy food, if his energy levels seem normal, then he's probably fine.

Food containing caffeine — including energy drinks, cola, chocolate and tea, as well as coffee — can keep your baby awake because small amounts of caffeine pased into the breastmilk.

There are so many amazing hormones, are all produced by the placenta, that are taken out of your body with the birth of the placenta (which is why some experience baby blues, drops in energy, etc.) By encapsulating, you are providing your postpartum body the opportunity to benefit from small amounts of these while recovering from birth and caring for your little one.

Much like the City of Plattsburgh, whose Common Council last month imposed a moratorium on new commercial cryptocurrency mining operations due to concerns over energy consumption and fire suppression, the Village of Rouses Point is allocated a comparatively small amount of cheap hydropower each month, around 13,844 kilowatts.

Quantum mechanics lays out a set of mind - bending rules on how very small things move and behave, such as their ability to absorb energy only in discrete amounts (or quanta) and be in two different states at the same time.

As this state corresponds to a lower potential energy, the particle regains a smaller amount of kinetic energy when it rolls back into the centre of the trap.

If even a small amount of energy from phonons (the sound units that carry the energy through the germanium or silicon, much as photons are the units of light) hit the detector, it can be enough to make the device lose superconductivity and register a potential dark matter event through a device called a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

Fractionated lasers use the same amount of energy as older models, she says, but that energy is broken up into smaller doses, offering safer, more effective treatment.

If solar energy were to make up 10 per cent of the country's electricity mix, this difference would add an extra 0.23 per cent to overall grid emissions in the US — a small but significant amount.

Steve: And for those of you who are very uncomfortable with this singularity idea of basically an infinite amount of matter and energy in an infinitesimally small point of space, again, this does away with that and you only have to deal with the concept of the massive, a trillions suns in a volume of space the size of a proton.

The ability to send large amounts of energy across greater physical distance to in - motion platforms from low cost charging plates could one day allow the technology to expand beyond small consumer electronics like cell phones and begin powering bigger things like automobiles.

As they heat up, some particles gain lots of energy but most just a small amount.

The amount of energy needed from food is relatively small: around 250 calories a day until they are 9 months old.

The meteorite, found in 1979, has long been known to contain small amounts of the chemicals nitrate and perchlorate, which could be good or bad for life: To some modern life forms on Earth, perchlorate is toxic, but to others in oxygen - free conditions, and to those in the early days of Earth, it was a source of energy for microbes.

Because the snake essentially follows its own tracks through the sand, the amount of slip generated by its motion is small, allowing it to move through the sand using less energy than the sandfish (Scincus scincus), whose movement pattern generated a larger fluidized region of sand around its body.

Because this implosive collapse is dominated by the inertia of the liquid surrounding the bubble, and there is little stiffness supplied by the condensing vapor (only the small amount of residual gas contained within the bubble), the energy density can become much larger than that originally present in the sound field itself.

«When a sound wave propagates through a fluid, the amount of energy density in the wave is quite small.

Monti said the device is safe because it emits only a small amount of energy — less than a conventional Doppler ultrasound.

Electrons, atoms, and molecules are so small that their gravity, and hence the amount of energy needed to keep them in duplicate states, is negligible.

In one of the more successful government - supported programs for energy - efficient technology, research and development of better compressors now have provided refrigerators that are larger still — but use roughly the same amount of energy as the smaller iceboxes of the past.

In an age of mass data storage and portable devices which collect and process information, the search is on to find smaller, faster, cheaper and more energy efficient ways, of both processing and storing increasing amounts of data.

In 1997 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decided that the small amount of power the Edwards Dam generated did not justify the environmental costs.

«Whatever the cause, some heat does indeed leak back toward the solar surface, but the total amount of energy so transported is really quite small, and can not raise the photospheric temperature very much.

The battery - free phone does still require a small amount of energy to perform some operations.

The batteries also make up a small fraction of the device's weight and cost, regulating small amounts of energy.

And it can still produce small amounts of fusion energy.

Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are small and light, yet can store copious amounts of energy, making them ideal for use in everyday electronic devices such as iPods and laptops.

These small crystals are materials capable of conserving energy when exposed to radiation, which on heating show the amount of energy deposited in the form of light.

«But you can get the same amount of energy in a smaller amount of space with sodium - sulfur — and that's important, because real estate costs money too.»

However, TRAPPIST - 1's small size and low temperature mean that the energy input to its planets is similar to that received by the inner planets in our Solar System; TRAPPIST - 1c, d and f receive similar amounts of energy to Venus, Earth and Mars, respectively.

Anything that nudges the spins of electrons that line up with the Earth's magnetic field will change the energy of those spins by a small amount.

However, the photovoltaic cells now used to turn sunlight into electricity can only absorb and use a small fraction of that light, and that means a significant amount of solar energy goes untapped.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

Tilted - angle standing surface acoustic waves can separate cells using very small amounts of energy.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

«The project team's result is an excellent example of how a small amount of catalytic funding from ARPA - E can help build the foundation to hopefully turn scientific discoveries into low - cost, early - stage energy technologies.»

«I believe that this technology can provide a robust, simple, and energy - efficient milk preservation system that would decrease the amount of wasted milk, thus increasing the income of small farmers in developing countries.»

That's a benefit of our material: The overpotential (the amount of energy required to trigger electrocatalysis) is small, and quite competitive with other materials.