Sentences with phrase «peculiar properties»

«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for switching electronic signals in small devices.
When such a photon collides with a sodium atom, the sodium's own peculiar properties allow it to absorb the photon's angular momentum.
The emergence of chemistry had a transformative effect on the universe because of a peculiar property of atomic hydrogen: If you take a big cloud of hydrogen atoms and let it collapse, it gets hotter and hotter until all the bound - up energy keeps it from shrinking any further.
Through such analyses, Connes discovered the peculiar properties of his new geometry, properties that corresponded to the principles of quantum theory.
Its peculiar properties suggest a new era in physics could be about to dawn
«It is the presence of this highly ordered arrangement of water molecules, mixed with other disordered arrangements that gives water its peculiar properties.
Soon after quantum theory was developed in the early part of the 20th century, physicists realized it had some peculiar properties.
West Virginia University chemist Kenneth Showalter has found a better way of negotiating a maze — one that takes advantage of the peculiar properties not of rats but of chemical waves.
Rotation is one way that superfluids reveal their peculiar properties.
As galaxies gradually came to be understood as collections of stars like our Milky Way, the peculiar properties of some galaxies gained interest.
US 708 has another peculiar property in marked contrast to other hypervelocity stars: it is a rapidly rotating, compact helium star likely formed by interaction with a close companion.
These social networks turn out to have a peculiar property.
Fighting games, especially Street Fighter, have the peculiar property of turning its most devoted players into the subject material, and I say this with all seriousness.
I do understand that the winds are driven by the uneven heating of the earth and, in turn, the winds effect surface currents, but the oceans of water, with it's peculiar properties, have an outsized effect.
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