Sentences with phrase «stable element»

It produces Lead as the final stable element of this Alpha decay chain.

They might learn that there are 67 stable elements in the periodic table, not the 80 we have.

The method could help find an «island» of unusually stable elements that is thought to extend beyond the current end of the periodic table.

Most decay to stable elements in a few hours, some take days.

Indeed, the persistence of these beliefs seems to be one of the more stable elements of American religious culture, in contrast with the serious restructuring that has taken place in many other beliefs and practices.

Moody and his team are already looking to build on their results by using other neutron - rich elements to create new stable elements with unpredictable properties.

We also recall that helium is one of the most stable elements known, and that liquid helium has been used in many previous particle accelerators without mishap.

Also of note: Enrico Fermi discovered that bombarding stable elements with neutrons could induce them to become radioactive.

This goes on until the neutrons run out, and the host of newly forged exotic atoms decays into more stable elements.

In his work, Valentine included an illustration that, Principe suspected, depicted a method for rendering gold — normally one of the most stable elements — volatile.

If the definition of self requires a stable element, here is a fresh candidate.

Now, says Sarah, «Food is the stable element in my family's life.

Knowing that uranium and thorium decay into two lead «isotopes» — which can be distinguished by their different physical properties — Soddy later measured the atomic weights of this stable element in ores rich in uranium and thorium, and found that they were 206.08 and 207.69, respectively.

The decay chains they thought they had seen, from element 118 to 116 to 114 and so on, until the atom reached the more stable element 106, were nowhere to be found.

Weisz's character Ronit technically disturbs the peace of Hendon, but in the narrative she acts as a stable element.

The fluoride salt thorium reactor can produce nuclear wastes that consist only of fission products, which quickly decay to stable elements - in fact some elements like xenon or rhodium represent valuable commercial products after a few months «cooling down».