Sentences with phrase «produced by atoms»

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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.

If we now ascribe a protopsychic nature to atoms, the protopsychic characteristics, too, could produce new protopsychic characteristics by these new systemic relations.

It is by virtue of their physical properties that electrons and other particles combine in different ways to produce atoms, and so it is with atoms that find themselves in juxtaposition and then combine to produce molecules.

There are basically two types of lines, those produced by collisions between the atoms or ions and the electrons in the surrounding gas, which are called collision lines, and which are very bright for elements such as oxygen, nitrogen and neon, and lines which are produced when ions capture free electrons, which are called recombination lines, and which are bright only for those gases with the highest abundances in the interstellar medium: hydrogen and helium.

Strogatz explores dozens of strange synchronous phenomena, from hands clapping in unison to the rhythmic flashing of fireflies to laser beams produced by trillions of atoms emitting light waves in phase at the same frequency.

The team succeeded by using deuteration, or the substitution of deuterium atoms for hydrogen atoms, to study how hydroxyl is produced.

• Stars like the sun produce energy by fusing two hydrogen atoms into a single helium atom.

What is more, the uranium atoms that have already split in two produce radioactive by - products that themselves give off a great deal of heat.

At a certain ratio of cerium atoms to molecules, self - assembly produced a symmetrical complex 2 - D pattern described originally by Kepler and known today as the snub square tiling.

Li's team showed that during CRAND, cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere collide with neutral atoms, creating a splash that produces charged particles, including electrons, that become trapped by Earth's magnetic field.

When neutrons pass through a crystal or a liquid, some are deflected by atoms and produce «diffraction patterns».

All reactors produce energy by splitting the nuclei of heavymetal (high - atomic - weight) atoms, mainly uranium or elements derived from uranium.

It's the result of a particular magnetic property of materials — the magnetic moment, a tiny magnetic field produced by electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom.

When those atoms are hit by energetic cosmic ray particles, they break up in fragments, including beryllium nuclei, which can't be produced by any other means.

One of the most ubiquitous is the «octet rule,» which states that each atom in a molecule that is produced by a chemical reaction will have eight outer orbiting electrons.

In 2003, the Dubna team claimed to have made one atom of it by bombarding americium with calcium to produce an atom of element 115, which then quickly decayed to 113 and then lighter elements.

Called the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, this afterglow was produced about 370,000 years after the big bang when the first atoms formed and has been studied in great detail by satellites, such as NASA's WMAP probe.

The experiment could be explained by a mathematical model developed by the researchers over the past few years, which enabled them to produce a computer - generated movie of the motions of the atoms involved in the bond - breaking at the copper surface.

Liquid - metal sources, their conical shape generated by electrostatic fields, produce charged atoms that can cut away and rebuild circuits on a microscopic scale

«We found that we could change the color produced by the compound based on what other groups of atoms were bound to the ligand,» illuminates Filonenko.

By producing alternating layers weakly bonded between one another, each consisting of a single layer of atoms, this new material could serve as the elements of gates and other components in new, miniaturised 2D semiconductors.

There is nothing to explain the different behaviors of the two atoms, no way to predict when they will decay by looking at their history, and — seemingly — no definitive cause that produces these effects.

By counting the number of argon atoms that were produced, the physicists could calculate the flux of neutrinos coming from the sun.

These atoms would be produced in such small quantities and would decay so slowly that they would be extraordinarily hard to detect by their decay products alone.

While some atomic clocks also employ laser beams, they often suffer from an effect called «AC Stark shift,» in which exposure to an electric field, such as that produced by a laser, can shift an atom's resonant frequency.

Determining this «binding energy» has been difficult because super-heavy atoms are short - lived; experimentalists have had to estimate it by looking at the atoms produced when a super-heavy atom breaks apart.

The Tufts researchers discovered that dispersing individual, isolated platinum atoms in much less costly copper surfaces can create a highly effective and cost - efficient catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of 1,3 butadiene, a chemical produced by steam cracking of naphtha or by catalytic cracking of gas oil.

Produced by many animals, some plants, and bacteria, ferritin can clutch up to 4500 iron atoms in its central storage cavity.

They used brilliant, ultrashort X-ray pulses produced by LCLS to explore the resulting shock effects on a timescale of femtoseconds and from an atom's - eye view.

Like polarized light (which vibrates in one direction and is produced by the scattering of visible light off the surface of the ocean, for example), the polarized «B - mode» microwaves the scientists discovered were produced when CMB radiation from the early universe scattered off electrons 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when the cosmos cooled enough to allow protons and electrons to combine into atoms.

The atoms in our bodies could have been produced by a star just like Mira, says astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Phonons represent units of energy produced by vibrating atoms in a crystal lattice.

A group of SISSA / CNR IOM scientists (with the collaboration of the Univerzita Karlova in Prague) has studied a way to produce tiny platinum grains consisting of one atom only and to keep them dispersed in a stable manner, by exploiting the properties of the substrate on which they rest.

The scientists began by building a database of 1,500 odor - producing molecules, cataloging 1,664 different traits — their size, the strength of the chemical bonds between their atoms, and so on.

Another way of producing a solid, however, is by jamming particles (such as atoms, molecules, or even grains of sand) together, physically constraining their movements under high pressure.

The white dots making up squares arrayed 45 - degrees to the x / y - axis are selenium (Se) atoms, while the defects — missing Fe atoms in the Fe plane, about a quarter of a nanometer below the Se surface — show up as butterfly - shaped perturbations produced by quantum interference of electrons scattering from the defects.

This image produced by the Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning Tunneling Microscope reveals the location of every atom on the surface, as well as every single atomic defect in the field of view.

Some of these light - element nuclei also might be produced by cosmic rays shattering atoms of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other elements in the interstellar medium.

nuclear power Energy derived from processes that produce heat by splitting apart the nuclei of atoms (fission) or forcing atomic nuclei to merge (fusion).

Reddish and bluish light that often appears in the lower fringes of auroras is produced by ions striking atoms of nitrogen.

A recent study's been carried out by Rice University researchers that take a deeper look into hydrogen - producing atom - thick catalysts that to see just where it's coming from.

Methods: Diphenylphosphine ligands, which consist of two phenyl (C6H5) substituted phosphorus centers separated by a carbon chain of variable length, produce gold clusters with extremely narrow distributions in size; that is, the synthesis route produces a large quantity of clusters with the same number of gold atoms as well as a small number of clusters with similar numbers of atoms.

The temperature at its core has been estimated about 15,000,000 K. Energy is produced in its core by nuclear fusion, converts hydrogen atoms and releases huge amounts of energy.

The Jains more nearly approximated to Democritus by teaching that all atoms were of the same kind, producing different effects by diverse modes of combinations.

Healthy skin produces antioxidants that interfere with the process by which a free radical atom or molecule, which is missing an electron and is thus rendered unstable, attacks the nearest stable molecule and absconds with a replacement electron — a bit of thievery that results in damage to all components of a cell including DNA, proteins, lipids and its membrane.

The Term Chelate: The term chelate was first applied in 1920 by Sir Gilbert T. Morgan and H. D. K. Drew, who stated: «The adjective chelate, derived from the great claw or chele (Greek) of the lobster or other crustaceans, is suggested for the caliperlike groups which function as two associating units and fasten to the central atom so as to produce heterocyclic rings.»

Healthy skin produces antioxidants that interfere with the process by which a free radical atom or molecule, which is missing an electron and is thus rendered unstable, attacks the nearest stable molecule to «steal» a replacement electron — a form of biological burglary that results in damage to all components of a cell including DNA, proteins, lipids and its membrane.

Cosmogenic nuclides are isotopes that are produced by interaction of cosmic rays with the nucleus of the atom.

Grade Level: 6 - 8, 9 - 12 This site produced by the University of Wisconsin, Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Interdisciplinary Education Group (IEG), has as its goal, «to introduce you to the tools that let us «see» atoms, manipulate them, and create nano - architectural wonders.»

The Tablet 2 is powered by an Intel Atom processor, which may be the latest 32nm Clover Trail generation, but will still struggle to deliver the same sort of oomph that you'd get from the Ivy Bridge slates that others are producing.