News tagged with alkaline earth
German scientists produce first Bose-Einstein condensate with calcium atoms
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) have succeeded in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate from the alkaline earth element calcium. The use of alkaline earth atoms creates new ...
More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering ...
Can alkaline earth metals be used in quantum computing?
Nov 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "There are a number of different proposals for quantum computing," Andrew Daley tells PhysOrg.com. "These include solid state or semiconductor as well as atomic and molecular systems. We are considering atomic ...
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Scientists enhance Mother Nature's carbon handling mechanism
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.
Cleansing toxic waste -- with vinegar
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Engineers and environmental scientists at the University of Leeds are developing methods of helping contaminated water to clean itself by adding simple organic chemicals such as vinegar.
Extremophile Hunt Begins
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on ...
More Soil Delivered to Phoenix Lander Lab
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Scientists working on the Phoenix Mars Mission are analyzing soil delivered to the spacecraft's Wet Chemistry Laboratory.
Understanding the origin of rubies and sapphires to improve prospecting strategies
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Rubies and sapphires belong to the corundum mineralogical family. Corundums exist in a wide range of colours. They consist of aluminium oxide crystals containing impurities which dote them with their various tints: titanium ...
Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Hydrocarbons – molecules critical to life – are being generated by the simple interaction of seawater with the rocks under the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.
Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements
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Feb 21, 2005 |
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research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens the door to using 'superatom ...
Earliest animals lived in a lake environment, research shows
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Evidence for life on Earth stretches back billions of years, with simple single-celled organisms like bacteria dominating the record. When multi-celled animal life appeared on the planet after 3 billion years ...
Liquid saltwater is likely present on Mars, new analysis shows
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix Lander and therefore could be present at other locations on the planet, according to analysis by a group of mission scientists ...
Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements
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Jan 13, 2005 |
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A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens the door ...
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