Sentences with phrase «single xenon atoms»

IBM scientists first demonstrated this technique in 1990 when they discovered how to use an STM to move single xenon atoms around on a nickel surface — they used 35 of them to spell out «IBM».

To do this, they fixed individual noble gas atoms within a molecular network and determined the interactions with a single xenon atom that they had positioned at the tip of an atomic force microscope.

To measure the van der Waals forces, scientists in Basel used a low - temperature atomic force microscope with a single xenon atom on the tip.

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The term state is in quotes, because a wide variety of agents — ranging from single atoms such as xenon to polycyclic hydrocarbons — can produce insensibility to pain and loss of awareness.

The smaller ring (compound labeled 1; top) self - assembles into straws with narrow - bore interiors that can accommodate xenon atoms only in single file.