Sentences with phrase «radioactive elements if»
We would generally not be able to measure strontium or plutonium or other radioactive elements if we could not detect cesium because these other elements would be present in such minute amounts that our instruments are not capable of detecting them.
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If the original asteroids were bigger than about 20 kilometers across — and there's no reason to think they weren't — decaying radioactive elements inside them would have made the rock hotter than that.
The Hebrew University team of scientists have shown that these contradicting observations can be reconciled if the source of radioactive plutonium (as well as other rare elements, such as gold and uranium) is in mergers of binary neutron stars.
The human body takes up strontium, for example, as if it were calcium, which is why the radioactive form of the element can collect in teeth, nails and bones, causing serious health problems such as bone cancer.
Even if the rifting is explained by the excess radioactive elements, there is still no definitive explanation for why only the near side of the moon ended up enriched.
«Even if our formation wasn't triggered by a supernova, the presence of decay products of certain radioactive elements points to a supernova perhaps seeding the already formed young solar system with enriched elements.»
Produced by the decay of radioactive elements, these particles rarely, if ever, interact with matter, making them extremely hard to detect and study.
If coal ash, a waste product from burning coal to generate power, contains concentrated levels of known carcinogens, neurotoxins and radioactive elements, is it hazardous?
If you put a radioactive element into lukewarm soup in a Dewar flask in order to maintain its temperature and put the flask into a refridgerator, then the outside skin of the Dewar would be lower than the inside skin which would be lower than the soup temperature.
SImple experiment: put a sample of a radioactive element (which has a measured temperature) inside of a Dewar flask and measure if the temperature of the radioactive element rises as a result of radiative reflection from the inner walls of the flask.
However, he suggests listing continuing - education (CE) credits only if the courses you took were on special, advanced topics, such as quality control or preparing radioactive elements.