Sentences with phrase «with few atoms»

Even though the temperature is so high, one would not feel warm in the thermosphere, because it is so near vacuum that there is not enough contact with the few atoms of gas to transfer much heat.

Not exact matches

«With our unique techniques, we are now able to observe the detailed structure of antimatter atoms in hours rather than weeks, something we could not even imagine a few years ago.»

In harmony with the cosmic impulse which leads to the constant disintegration of atoms and the attendant release of energy, Life (though probably localized on a few rare planets) compels us increasingly to view it as an underlying current in the flow of which matter tends to order itself upon itself with the emergence of consciousness.

This distribution maximises entropy so minimum entropy would be found in a system with all energy contained in a few quanta; hence, the Primeval Atom hypothesis.

So for the current technology that we have, it makes more sense to stick with [molecules with fewer carbon atoms] such as ethylene or carbon monoxide, and then to upgrade those molecules using other processes.

For example, a few nitrogen atoms among a diamond's millions of carbon atoms can make the rock appear yellow or brown, while blue diamonds have been besmirched with a few boron atoms.

It consists of a tiny metal finger with a tip only a few atoms wide that moves back and forth just above the surface of a sample.

Now researchers have isolated a fullerene with just 36 carbons atoms, making it the first member of the family to have fewer than 60 carbons.

Carefully tuned in the laboratory, these coatings can produce a bright, solid pink — or, say, a vivid blue — using the same two metals, applied with only a few atoms» difference in thickness.

«With a few simple precautions, the travellers would be almost exactly the same, with less than an atom of difference.&raWith a few simple precautions, the travellers would be almost exactly the same, with less than an atom of difference.&rawith less than an atom of difference.»

With so few antihydrogen atoms, they had to do something more subtle.

This results in defects in the lattice structure: some few carbon atoms — fewer than 1 % — separate from the lattice and are replaced with nitrogen atoms, which bring along additional electrons.

To create the nano cages, researchers start with a nanoscale cube or octahedron of less expensive palladium, then deposit a few layers of platinum atoms on top of it.

The interstellar medium is mostly hydrogen and helium, peppered with heavier atoms, a few molecules, and some dust — pretty benign stuff, on the whole.

«All four copper atoms are participating because with only a few of them in the cluster, they are all exposed and able to bind.»

In their study, the ICFO team cooled down a cloud of atoms to a few micro-degrees Kelvin, applied a magnetic field to produce spin motion as in MRI, and illuminated the cloud with a laser to measure the orientation of the atomic spins.

During its 55 - day flight, Super-TIGER collected just a few thousand of the heavy atoms that Binns seeks, with the help Super-TIGER's collaborators at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota.

Perhaps, the scientists thought, the bubbles would get so big that their collapse would produce temperatures near 10 million degreeshot enough to cause a few deuterium atoms in the acetone to fuse into helium or tritium (hydrogen with two extra neutrons).

This very weak light, consisting of only a few light particles, or photons, bouncing back and forth inside the cavity, allows the atoms to communicate and synchronize with each other.

The technique consists of breaking down the atoms or molecules in a sample so that they become charged with more or fewer electrons than the original (ionization) and then separating them by mass / charge ratio in order to identify and quantify them.

Based on their analysis, PTB's strontium clock attains the quantum projection noise limit, which is due to the laws of physics, with as few as 130 atoms.

Georgia Tech's de Heer reported some success with his method of cooking silicon carbide so that carbon atoms bubble to the top in one or a few atomic layers.

Dai's team coats carbon nanotubes — hollow cylinders of carbon only a few atoms wide — in folic acid, a molecule that binds with certain types of cancers, including breast cancer.

«But with Green's functions, atom - to - atom interactions tend to drop off after a few neighbors.

The smallest particles have metal cores of only 1 - 2 nm with a few tens to a couple of hundred gold atoms.

«We don't have a microscope that can visualize what's happening at this small scale,» Shenoy said, «but there are few enough atoms that we can model how they behave with a high degree of accuracy.»

The false colors indicate the number of atoms at each velocity, with red being the fewest and white being the most.

Using machine learning methods, we inferred that most of these facets had similar activity to Ni surfaces but that a few exposed Ni sites surrounded by Ga atoms had a favorable on - top CO configuration with improved kinetics.

But when Santoro grew these same bacteria in her lab, they produced nitrous oxide with too few heavy atoms.

Most of these molecules contain a small number of atoms, and only a few molecules with eight or more atoms have been found in interstellar clouds.

January 24, 2018 - The use of nanotechnology has exploded over the past few decades, with more and more manufacturers including nanoparticles (microscopic particles that are bigger than an atom but smaller than what the human eye can see) in clothing, food, and various...

Researchers in Australia and the US have demonstrated a working transistor by placing of single atom of phosphorous with atomic precision between gates made of wires only a few phosphorous atoms wide.

In close collaboration with our UNSW colleagues, we apply this method to the fabrication of quantum computer devices containing few or single atoms in which single electron spins can be controlled and read - out.

«Only a few decades ago, no one would have believed that we could see individual atoms, but our capabilities now not only allow us to see them, but manipulate them, like a child building with Lego ® bricks.

Once an atom has fewer electrons, with a negative electrical charge, than protons, with a positive electrical charge, this atom now has more positive electrical charge than negative electrical charge - we therefore say that this atom is, itself, positively charged.

Everything that happens in the story is only a matter of course, and despite a few knowing jabs at itself (Charlie insists that Max dance with Atom when they enter the ring because the crowd loves the «kid thing»), Gatins» script strictly adheres to formula.

Miranda Hart, Allison Janney and Bobby Cannavale all bounce in and out of the picture at one point of another, providing very little in terms of actual comedy while Rose Byrne as an ice - cold vixen with an atom - bomb up for sale actually packs in a few nice laughs.

Ariel's 550 kg Atom is about as extreme as road - legal cars get (with the possible exception of a few).

Jumper is launching the new Jumper EZpad mini3 tablet on March 27, an 8 - inch Windows 10 tablet with Z8300 Cherry Trail processor and a fully sized USB 3.0 port for just above $ 110: http://www.everbuying.net/product1154922.html The established brands have not yet caught up to the Cherry Trail processors in general in this category, so among 8 - inch Windows 10 tablets, there are extremely few tablet brands that run a Intel Atom x5 - Z8300... more...

The joojoos Atom processor runs at 1.6 ghz AND also comes with a Nvidia Ion chip to run HD@720dpi upscaled to 1366 * 768 (one of the few tablets that do this for $ 500)

At first, I was concerned about how applications would run on the 1.33 - GHz Atom Z3735G CPU with just 1 GB of RAM and 32 GB of flash storage, and while there were a few occasional hiccups or stutters, I was pretty impressed by what this budget 2 - in - 1 could do.

Gizmodo went hands - on with the upcoming tablet, which features a 8.4 ″ (2560 x 1600) OLED panel, Intel Atom Z3580 quad - core processor clocked at 2.3 GHz, 8MP rear - facing camera with a few tricks up its sleeve, measures in at only 6.4 mm thin, and runs Android 4.4 +.

Get used to it - geochemistry happens, and with every breath, we, like our evolutionary forebears, inhale and exhale more than a few atoms of every element in the periodic chart this side of plutonium -

Fossil Fuel is a generic term that isn't quite correct Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.

According to one reference, in the normal atmosphere, all of the O3 is destroyed by UV photolysis every few minutes, leading to the formation of free O atoms, and all of the O atoms are immediately consumed in reactions with O2 to reform O3 in a fraction of a second.

One observation: Jeff writes, «There are many news aggregator programs and web site services that work with RSS, but very few will read Atom at the moment.»

As you may remember, Intel made a push into mobile chips with its Atom processors that popped up in a few phones.