Sentences with phrase «use xenon»

The headlights use Xenon lights as standard, but buyers can also get LEDs or Matrix LEDs as an available option.

These headlights use xenon gas, giving them a slight blue tint when viewed by the naked eye, and are often used on luxury cars.

I think that this means that in order to use Xenon bulbs, I'll need all the inverter electronics in order to ionize the gas and whatnot.

The xenon HID conversions that I've seen requires a box to be set up to use the Xenon bulbs.

We use xenon because it is one of the heaviest elements — meaning that each atom contains a lot of protons and neutrons — and that increases the odds that dark matter will interact with it.

Two types of electric rockets are currently in use: the ion thruster, which generates thrust using a beam of positive xenon ions, and the Hall thruster, which uses xenon ions and electrons for propulsion.

Physicists have used xenon to generate images of blood flow through heart, lung, and brain tissue in rats.

Even the earlier launched Nokia Lumia smartphones powered by Microsoft also used the Xenon flash.

Not exact matches

Large Underground Xenon (LUX) detector is used to encounter WIMPs but nothing yet!

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.

The way we go about this search is to wait for a particle of dark matter to come into contact with our device, which is basically a pot of liquid xenon [an element that is used, in gas form, in the very bright headlights of many new cars] sandwiched between two detectors.

Now, KamLAND - Zen is embarking on a new incarnation of the experiment, using about twice as much xenon, which will reach down to even smaller masses, and even rarer decays.

In Russell's proposal, Dawn used the same basic engine design as Deep Space 1 but needed a larger xenon fuel tank and other changes to ensure the system would survive its eight - year mission.

But Hayabusa has been hobbling home without the full use of its four ion engines, which ionise xenon gas and then use electric fields to accelerate the ions, providing a steady — though weak — thrust.

Previously we have been doing experiments at our beamline using other much heavier, and therefore easily detectable, noble gases such as xenon and krypton.

Located almost half a mile underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, protected from cosmic radiation, the sensitive EXO experiment uses 200 kilograms of enriched liquid xenon that could potentially undergo the sought - after decay.

Other experiments, like COUPP - 60, the XENON Dark Matter Project in Italy, and the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SUPERCDMS) have used similar techniques that heavily shield a material and wait for naturally - occurring dark matter to pass through.

«Today we're using a detector that is a third of a ton of liquid xenon.

Readers have recently discussed athletes» use of xenon as a performance - enhancing substance (26 July, p 31).

If Toby Pereira thinks xenon and argon are used by athletes as inert gases to simulate altitude training, he might...

The LUX detector, located deep underground in Lead, S.D., uses a tank of 370 kilograms of ultra-pure liquid xenon to detect interacting particles by picking out blips of light they produce.

Xenon is used in hospitals as a general anaesthetic, so it is already known to be safe in humans.

They use electric fields to accelerate a beam of positively charged xenon gas ions, which shoot out of the spacecraft at speeds of up to 90,000 mph.

Even with shielding from the outside world, contaminants seep into the xenon from the materials used in the detector.

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».

Then the xenon flows into the smaller chamber, where its polarization is measured, using the rubidium atoms in the same chamber as magnetometers.

Polarized xenon is also used as a contrast agent to enhance images in experimental magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of human lungs, but conventional systems for producing and using this gas can be as big as a car.

These rockets — powered by ionized xenon gas — produce very low thrust compared with their solid - or liquid - fueled cousins, but use so little propellant that they last much longer.

The novel design also uses the rubidium atoms to polarize the xenon atoms, boosting their NMR response, and mixes the two types of atoms in the same chamber at the detection stage, which enhances the signal strength 500-fold.

LZ would have a 10 - ton liquid xenon target, which will fit inside the same 72,000 - gallon tank of pure water used by LUX.

There's no reason why we couldn't repeat the experiment with a whole fleet of similar probes, sending each one to multiple destinations using simple and cheap xenon engines.

This system uses huge solar panels to generate electricity, which will energize stored xenon gas and expel it at high velocity to generate thrust.

Xenon engines and solar sails are tortoises in the space race, and the low - energy paths that put them to best use can take many years to complete.

14 Eigler and his team later used 35 xenon atoms to spell out «IBM,» thus performing the world's smallest PR stunt.

Results from another Gran Sasso experiment called XENON100, which uses liquid xenon, seemed to exclude the very dark matter particles DAMA was suggesting.

Commercial uses of xenon include lighting, scientific instruments, and anesthesia.

Severinghaus discovered that xenon and krypton are well preserved in ice cores, which provides the temperature information that can then be used by scientists studying many other aspects of the earth's oceans and atmosphere over hundreds of thousands of years.

Results: Whether capturing xenon for security or industrial uses, a new material could be a valuable ally, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Conventional technologies for capturing xenon use activated charcoal, which is fine black carbon powder processed to be porous, with an effective surface area of 500 square meters a gram.

To capture xenon and krypton, conventional technologies use cryogenic methods in which entire gas streams are brought to a temperature far below where water freezes — such methods are energy intensive and expensive.

Thallapally, working with Maciej Haranczyk and Berend Smit of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and others, has been studying materials called metal - organic frameworks, also known as MOFs, that could potentially trap xenon and krypton without having to use cryogenics.

To capture xenon and krypton, conventional technologies use cryogenic methods in which entire gas streams are brought to a temperature far below where water freezes - such methods are energy intensive and expensive.

The researchers, who published their discovery August 26th in Physical Review Letters, have demonstrated the effectiveness of their technique on a small scale and now plan to use the device in a large - scale detector, which they envision as a chamber containing a ton of high - pressure, purified xenon gas.

After 10 cycles of this, SBMOF - 1 collected just as much xenon as the first cycle, indicating a high degree of stability for long - term use.

The Liquid Xenon Gamma - Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is a balloon - borne experiment which uses a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) to image gamma - ray emission from cosmic sources in the 0.15 -10 MeV energy Xenon Gamma - Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is a balloon - borne experiment which uses a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) to image gamma - ray emission from cosmic sources in the 0.15 -10 MeV energy xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) to image gamma - ray emission from cosmic sources in the 0.15 -10 MeV energy band.

Abstract: We have investigated multiphoton multiple ionization dynamics of argon and xenon atoms using a new x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facility, SPring - 8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser (SACLA) in Japan, and identified that highly charged Xe ions with the charge state up to +26 are produced predominantly via four - photon absorption as well as highly charged Ar ions with the charge state up to +10... ▽ More We have investigated multiphoton multiple ionization dynamics of argon and xenon atoms using a new x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facility, SPring - 8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser (SACLA) in Japan, and identified that highly charged Xe ions with the charge state up to +26 are produced predominantly via four - photon absorption as well as highly charged Ar ions with the charge state up to +10 are produced via two - photon absorption at a photon energy of 5.5 keV.

Takeuchi has spurred efforts to construct another detector in the Kamioka mine, known as XMASS, that uses a one - ton tank of liquid xenon cooled to -100 °C to observe collisions between WIMPs and the frigid noble gas.

Xenon are used on dipped beams because of the time lag from turning them on and thier reaching operating luminosity.

Early Xenon light conversions were totally unsuitable for vehicle use because they did not form a distinct beam or focused pattern.

European law requires main beams to illuminate immediately when switched on from dipped beam, so Xenon are not used as they do not do this because of the inherent lag in operation.