Sentences with phrase «producing electric current»

Inside his prototype are three layers of molten fluid: magnesium, antimony, and an electrolyte solution that transfers magnesium ions (charged atoms) to the antimony, producing an electric current.

For every lithium ion transferred, one electron is also transferred, producing electric current.

For example, typical testing methods show the behavior of the «majority carriers,» the predominant particles or vacancies whose movement produces an electric current through a material.

Zhang and colleagues derived the PS - I from plants, stabilized it chemically and formed a layer on a glass substrate that could — like a conventional photovoltaic cell — produce an electric current when exposed to light.

Batteries have come a long way since Alessandro Volta first discovered in 1800 that two unlike metals, when separated by an acidic solution, could produce an electric current.

That action produces an electric current.

Its fuel cells use natural gas or renewable biogas, which react electrochemically with oxygen to produce electric currents without creating emissions.

Just as current flowing through a wire causes a torqued magnetic field around the circumference of the wire, the current passing through the rotating Earth produces an electric current about the equator in the direction of rotation.

The paper can then be folded origami - style to produce an electric current.

The key enabling device in a pixel is the photodiode, which produces an electric current when exposed to light.

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All involve an electric current running through a coiled wire transmitter, which produces a localized magnetic field.

By stretching the fibers nearly 40 feet long, the new material produced up to 1,000 volts of electric current.

The incandescent light bulb was a vacuum - filled glass globe in which an electric current heated a resistive thin strip of material (called a filament) until it glowed, producing light.

A type of power inverter, the small, shiny box doesn't produce power itself, but instead changes direct current to alternating current, an essential process in electric car technology that lets battery power spin the car's motor.

And the same holds true for oscillations of electric currents and electric fields which the brain produces.

In their study, subjects underwent 40 seconds of disruptive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-- in which a magnetic coil placed near the skull produced small electric currents in the brain that inhibited activity of the posterior TPJ — then spent 30 minutes completing a task.

The material they were using, antimony sulfide, is a molten semiconductor, which normally would not allow for the kind of electrolytic process that is used to produce aluminum and some other metals through the application of an electric current.

The way reconnection disturbs terrestrial power grids is complex but, in essence, the process mimics what happens in electric generators, where a fluctuating magnetic field (usually a moving magnet) produces a current in a coil of wire, says Adam Szabo, director of NASA's Heliophysics Laboratory.

Penfield, one of the giants of modern neuroscience, discovered that stimulating the brain's right temporal lobe — located just above the ear — with a mild electric current produced out - of - body experiences, heavenly music, vivid hallucinations, and the kind of panoramic memories associated with the life review part of the near - death experience.

This «electric nanoforest» only produces a trickle of electricity at present, but with refinement it could begin to produce useful amounts of current.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

When they do, the aptamers curl around the drug and pull the redox reporter close enough to the electrode for the electrons to hop over and produce a rise in the electric current, signaling the presence of the drug.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

In the famous Miller - Urey experiment of the 1950s, researchers produced a rich soup of amino acids by running an electric current through flasks containing elements of a primitive Earth, thus showing how precursor chemicals could have formed here.

In 1952, Hodgkin and Huxley introduced a model in which nerve signals were described as an electric current along the nerve produced by the flow of ions.

When those relativistic electrons collided with air molecules, they generated gamma rays and lower energy electrons that were the main electric current carrier that produced the strong radio pulse before the visible lightning.

The composite material showed excellent heating properties, producing heat as electric current was passed through the silver nanowires, even when bent repeatedly or when rolled up into a tube.

The roots of garden pea plants were exposed to low - level electric current and subsequently produced 13 times more pisatin, an antifungal chemical, than plants that were not exposed to electricity.

The team also found that the parallel stack was most efficient at producing an electric charge, consistently creating stronger current.

The HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current household energy consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize the proportion of household - produced energy they use.

Light stimulates some of the 5,000 microscopic solar cells on the chip to produce a tiny electric current that wakes up the eye's failing photoreceptor cells.

They describe technology that would react the CO2 with water or other liquids and, with further processing, produce a flow of electrons that make up electric current.

By incorporating a lens that changes optical parameters in response to an electric current, the innovative technology can produce higher quality images than currently available and could make eye examinations faster and more comfortable for patients by avoiding the need to undergo imaging with multiple instruments to look at different areas of the eye.

The spin and orbital motion gives rise to the magnetization, similar to an electric current circulating in a coil and producing a magnetic field.

Apply electric current to this microbe, and you produce pure methane, according to microbiologist Bruce Logan of Pennsylvania State University.

When humans move, or think about a movement, neurons in the motor cortex produce tiny electric currents.

Scientists at PPPL have produced self - consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have produced self - consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

The current i8's three - cylinder, range - extending internal combustion engine will be ditched in favor of three high - revving (25,000 rpm) electric motors producing a total of 750 hp and more potent batteries capable of delivering a 300 - mile range.

Thanks to its electric assisted powertrain and eight - speed dual - clutch transmission, it looks certain that the XR - PHEV Evolution will be substantially quicker than the current fastest Mitsubishi — the Evo X FQ - 400 — due to the high torque figures performance hybrids can produce.

The Coda seems more like a design exercise to impress other manufacturers to adapt their (Coda's) technology to current production cars rather than produce a recycled electric car.

[34] The factory and its supplier companies remain the largest employers in the region, with current cars produced there including the Nissan Qashqai, the Nissan Juke and the electric Nissan LEAF.

Also, Ford recently announced that the electric drive transaxles would be produced at another Michigan facility instead of using the current supplier in Japan.

E-Power: Runs on electric power only until the battery is depleted E-Hold: Keeps the current state of the battery's charge intact until the driver decides to use it E-Charge: Gas engine produces more power to help charge the battery Hybrid Auto: Combines various amounts of gas and electric power to maximize efficiency

The current Lexus CT 200h utilizes the hybrid system including a 4 - cyl 1.8 - L gas engine and two electric motors to produce the overall output of 134 horsepower.

The current mild hybrid formula marries a 205kW, 3.5 - litre Atkinson - cycle V6 petrol engine with a 15kW / 160Nm electric motor, producing 220kW and 385Nm.

The shock collars for dogs provide an electric current, the citronella dog collars provide a spray of citrus, and the sonic dog collars produce a tone that only the dog can hear (it's out of human hearing range).

80 Bcf of natural gas is equivalent to 24 terawatt - hours of energy or the same energy that 1,000 gigawatts of electric generation capacity — roughly the size of the current US electric grid — would produce over a 24 - hour period.

Coronal holes produce a recurring solar wind burst which in turn (for low latitude coronal holes) creates a space charge differential in the earth's ionosphere which in turn causes an electric current to flow from high latitude regions to the earth's equator.

It's also important to point out why fossil fuel electricity is relatively cheap in the United States: The behind - the - scenes costs of burning fuel that produces carbon dioxide and noxious pollutants — health care costs, environmental cleanup, and the current and future expenses of adapting to a warmer world — are not included in the US electric bill.