Sentences with phrase «on deuterium»

To determine the ratios that would currently be found deep in the moon's interior, Van Orman and Saal modeled the loss of gasses from inside melt inclusions and the influence of degassing on the deuterium.

Not exact matches

Improving the hot - spot pressure and demonstrating ignition hydrodynamic equivalence in cryogenic deuterium - tritium implosions on OMEGA

Shock timing measurements and analysis in deuterium - tritium - ice layered capsule implosions on NIF

Measurements of collective fuel velocities in deuterium - tritium exploding pusher and cryogenically layered deuterium - tritium implosions on the NIF

A fusion power plant, on the other hand, will generate energy by fusing atoms of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen — the lightest element.

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

Calculated labeled retinol species in the circulation of a representative volunteer, throughout the course of the study, after consumption of [13C10] retinyl acetate on day 1 and after a deuterium - labeled Golden Rice β - carotene dose on day 8.

They've found that the ice on comets has deuterium concentrations very similar to the water in our oceans.

According to the data from DASI, it amounts to a mere 4.5 percent of the universe's total mass and energya number that accords well with an estimate made in 1998 based on the amount of the element deuterium produced during the big bang.

Better still, boron is a lot more common on Earth than deuterium or tritium.

On Earth, deuterium is much rarer than hydrogen.

As deuterium is thought to have been produced in the big bang, it should once have had similar abundances on all the planets in the solar system.

Such probes have examined the surface composition of lithium films on a molybdenum substrate after the films were exposed to deuterium ions.

Rosetta's lander has the ability to measure the relative abundances of hydrogen and its isotope deuterium in the water on the comet.

Researchers used a multicollector ion microprobe to study hydrogen - deuterium ratios in lunar rock and on Earth.

Clarke will present IUVS measurements of hydrogen and deuterium — a form of hydrogen that contains a neutron and is heavier — on Oct. 19 at the planetary conference.

On the other hand, negative hydrogen / deuterium ion beams sustain the energy - independent neutralization efficiency of ~ 60 %.

The original branch of the field focuses on infusing deuterium into a palladium electrode by turning on the power, Nagel explains.

Nagel likes to compare these LENR technologies to that of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a multination high - temperature fusion experiment based on well - understood physics — merging deuterium and tritium — being carried out in southern France.

Sometime within the next year or two, for a few billionths of a second, those beams will focus 500 trillion watts on a pellet of deuterium and tritium housed inside a little capsule about the size of an Advil tablet.

Here at Los Alamos, he and colleagues are now working on better ways to create and manipulate the deuterium plasma.

Switch on powerful magnetic fields to create and control a hot plasma (ionized gas) of deuterium.

Under the machine's strong magnetic field, the protons left over from the neutron - stripped deuterium spiral backwards, landing nanoseconds later on a rod of silicon that will run along the centre of the chamber (see diagram).

Brown dwarfs are not considered stars because they are too small to fuse hydrogen in their cores — they don't have the gravitational oomph in their core to sustain hydrogen fusion, but, depending on how massive they are, they do have enough mass to sporadically fuse elements like lithium and deuterium.

The school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.

LIVERMORE, Calif. — In the early morning hours of Aug. 13, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) focused all 192 of its ultra-powerful laser beams on a tiny deuterium - tritium filled capsule.

Although many scientists believe that Venus may once have had oceans of water on its surface (in part because its ratio of deuterium to ordinary hydrogen is now measured to be around 150 times that of the Earth's), most of it has been lost the past five billion years.

A team of scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Utah State University, Northwestern University, and the University of Utah sought to understand this H2 relaxation mechanism by monitoring the effects of hydrogen (H) vs deuterium (D) on the kinetics of H2 formation when nitrogenase is attached to an electrode.

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The afternoon sessions on water isotopes in precipitation was quite exciting because of the number of people looking at innovative proxy archives, including cave records of 18O in calcite, or deuterium in leaf waxes, which are extending the coverage (in time and space) of this variable.

The Dome C temperature anomaly record with respect to the mean temperature of the last millennium8 (based on original deuterium data interpolated to a 500 - yr resolution), plotted on the EDC3 timescale13, is given as a black step curve.

The problem with your analysis is that the ice cores already reflect the ocean temperature by measuring the ratio of Deuterium to Hydrogen based on the difference in the relative evaporation of each, vs. temperature.

Specifically, the team focused on 13CH3D - a molecule with both an atom of carbon - 13 and a deuterium atom.

Human civilization can flourish for centuries and millennia on energy delivered from a closed uranium or thorium fuel cycle, or from hydrogen - deuterium fusion.

Old positive feedback examples in climate change... «Feedback Loops In Global Climate Change Point To A Very Hot 21st Century Using deuterium - corrected temperature records for the ice cores, which yield hemispheric rather than local temperature conditions, GCM climate sensitivity, and a mathematical formula for quantifying feedback effects, Torn and Harte calculated the magnitude of the greenhouse gas - temperature feedback on temperature.»