Sentences with phrase «weak electric field»

Just as every planet has a gravity field, it is believed that every planet with an atmosphere is also surrounded by a weak electric field.

The researchers used a weak electric field to drag the cigar - shaped clusters of 10 to 30 tin atoms through a metal drift tube filled with helium.

All animals generate weak electric fields from the activity of their muscles and nerves.

Damaged tissues generate weak electric fields, and Zhao's research has shown how these electric fields can attract cells into wounds to heal them.

Not exact matches

Electric fields in clouds often initiate a spark despite being apparently too weak to do so.

Organic chemist David Leigh of the University of Edinburgh, U.K., and colleagues had previously discovered that they could slow the spin of rotaxane rotors 1000-fold with oscillating electric fields, which apparently polarize and strengthen the weak hydrogen bonds holding a ring to its thread.

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.

Specifically, the polymer scientists applied an electric field to a system with two liquids to overcome the weak force that stabilizes nanoparticle assemblies at interfaces.

This model describes three types of forces: electromagnetic interactions, which cause all phenomena associated with electric and magnetic fields and the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation; strong interactions, which bind atomic nuclei; and the weak nuclear force, which governs beta decay — a form of natural radioactivity — and hydrogen fusion, the source of the sun's energy.

The coil was connected to a capacitor, which discharged an electric current to create a split - second magnetic pulse inside the coil, about 10 times weaker than the magnetic field generated by an MRI machine in a hospital.

TMS therefore uses magnetic fields to specifically inhibit or stimulate single brain areas by weak electric stimulation through the scalp.