In their earlier work, the Colorado group observed a significant drawback of their ultracold
potassium rubidium molecules: They were chemically reactive, and essentially came apart when they collided with other molecules.
Not exact matches
You have to reject every known method for dating fosils such as
potassium - argon or
rubidium - strontium dating along with the suspect radiocarbon dating.
The molecules are polar, with a positive electric charge on
rubidium and a negative charge on
potassium.
Each molecule consists of one
potassium atom bonded to one
rubidium atom.
The recipe required a small cloud of
rubidium atoms, a class of particles that like to act in unison, and a large cloud of
potassium atoms, which tend to be more independent.
She and fellow U.C.B. physicist Jun Ye recently succeeded in making a gas of ultracold polar molecules of
potassium and
rubidium near the temperature of the quantum regime where Jin previously observed a fermionic condensate.
It has the same attractive force as
potassium and has the same size as an atom of
rubidium.
Breakdown of Macro and Micro Minerals A. Macro Minerals - magnesium, Phosphorus, Calcium,
Potassium, chlorine, sodium, and sulfur B. Microminerals - Iron, zinc, copper, chromium, selenium, iodine, boron, manganese, molybdenum, lithium (used to treat bipolar disorder),
rubidium (required in smaller amounts in the body) 3.
And along with sodium and
potassium, feldspar dust particles are inevitably studded with zillions of
rubidium and cesium atoms as well — Thanx Eli - one begins to understand that it isn't ll physics!