Sentences with phrase «producing radioactive elements»

Not exact matches

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

Scientists already know that the Procellarum region is rich in radioactive elements that billions of years ago would have produced excess heat.

These measurements may also shed light on the proportion of radioactive elements like uranium and thorium inside the Moon, since their decay produces heat and should increase the amount of heat radiated by the Moon, says Paul Spudis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, US, who is developing radar instruments to fly on LRO and Chandrayaan - 1.

Some gamma rays can be produced by radioactive elements within Ceres itself, but most are byproducts of cosmic rays originating from elsewhere in space.

However, calculations by a team of geoscientist (including Nicolas Flament) suggest that Earth was a «water - world» up through year 2.1 billion because Earth's mantle layer may have been up to 200 °C hotter than it is today, when the early Earth still had a larger quantity of radioactive elements decaying and producing heat.

Nathalie Wall, assistant professor of chemistry, and Larissa Gribat, chemistry doctoral candidate, are investigating ways to contain technetium (Tc), a radioactive element produced during the burnup of uranium fuel.

This is light of extremely short wavelengths typically produced either among the stars / in cosmic rays or by radioactive element decay.

Scientists have long suspected that these elementary particles, which are produced by the decay of radioactive elements, have a unique trait — they can change, or «oscillate,» between their three known types, or «flavors» — the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino and the tau neutrino.

These particles, which are produced by the decay of radioactive elements, have a unique trait — they can change, or «oscillate,» between their three known types, or «flavors» — the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino and the tau neutrino.

Produced by the decay of radioactive elements, these particles rarely, if ever, interact with matter, making them extremely hard to detect and study.

To probe «closed shell» effects surrounding elements with 32 neutrons, a team at TRIUMF produced exotic, radioactive forms of titanium and weighed them with the ultra-precise mass spectrometers at TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science (TITAN) facility.

The radioactive elements are still producing heat, but it has nowhere to escape.