Sentences with phrase «with alpha particles»

Tanihata came to this conclusion after bombarding lithium 8 with alpha particles — helium atoms stripped of their electrons.

Curium was only discovered in 1944, by Glenn Seaborg and his collaborators at the University of California, Berkeley, who, by bombarding atoms of plutonium with alpha particles (atoms of helium) synthesized a new, very radioactive element.

Then, in the early 1990s, scientists noticed that when they blasted cells with alpha particles, mutations cropped up even in cells that had not been directly hit.

Not exact matches

The peptide is labelled with the alpha - emitting radionuclide 225Actinium that generates four high - energy alpha particles during its decay.

Alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, muons, neutrinos: The list is long and puzzling, and most of it has nothing to do with human activities.

The interaction between the alpha particles at zero temperature determined whether we ended up with a Bose gas, or a nuclear liquid.

«When we put two Helium - 4 nuclei or alpha particles together using a local interaction for the nucleons, they stuck together, but with non-local interactions they didn't.

Finding an isotope with an optimum half - life and that delivers four alpha particles, means more damage to the cancer cell nucleus.

, during this brief instant, a third alpha particle merges with the first two, carbon will be formed.

All of these elements are further boosted by an increase in shadow quality, foliage and other objects strewn across the environment, in combination with DirectX 11 enhanced particle effects and higher - resolution alpha buffers.

The flood of images and data — though still as haphazard as ever — now operated in dialogue with an expanded repertoire of image - making techniques: collage, photocopying and, as in Alpha Particles, silkscreen.

This plasma consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles with thermal energies between 1.5 and 10 keV.»

Assume body «B» is a thin spherical shell (external radius, RI) with a radioactive source (make it an alpha particle emitter so that the energy of the radioactive particles are quickly converted to random molecular motion) uniformly (i.e., symmetrically) distributed throughout the shell wall.