Sentences with phrase «than the hydrogen protons»

«Sodium ions are much smaller than the hydrogen protons bound to oxygen molecules in the water in our bodies which are mapped by conventional MRI.

Not exact matches

if you want hydrogen 1 proton, 1 neutron, 1 electron and you have 1 atom of hydrogen; the hard part is it would cost us more energy than we can afford at this point in our technological stage to accomplish such a feat.

Pagels (1984) points out that if the relative masses of protons and neutrons were different by a small fraction of 1 per cent, making the proton heavier than the neutron, hydrogen atoms would be unstable since the protons that constitute their nuclei would spontaneously decay into neutrons.

Analysis of the water leaving Venus's atmosphere, however, shows that many of the hydrogen ions are actually a stable isotope of the element called deuterium, which consists of a proton and a neutron (rather than just a proton) in its nucleus.

At that boundary, atmospheric pressures 100,000 times higher than those at Earth's surface strip protons and electrons from the planet's hydrogen.

The improvement transformed a catalyst that created two or three oxygen molecules per second to one that produces more than 100 per second — with a corresponding increase in the production of protons and electrons that can be used to create hydrogen fuel.