News tagged with deuterium
Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ...
Low-Budget Fusion Reactor Could Generate Energy within a Decade
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking ...
Heavy Pyridine Crystallizes Differently
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms contain only a single proton. If a neutron is added, the hydrogen becomes deuterium. In principle, molecules that contain deuterium in place of hydrogen ...
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Atomic Tug of War
Jul 02, 2008 |
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A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body.
Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion
May 27, 2008 |
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To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ...
Surprising telescope observations shake up galactic formation theories
Aug 14, 2006 |
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A heavy form of hydrogen created just moments after the Big Bang has been found to exist in larger quantities than expected in the Milky Way, a finding that could radically alter theories about star and galaxy ...
'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group ...
Researchers find clue to start of universe
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Sep 02, 2005 |
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If you want to hear a little bit of the Big Bang, you're going to have to turn down your stereo. That's what neighbors of MIT's Haystack Observatory found out. They were asked to make a little accommodation for ...
Ice cores map dynamics of sudden climate changes
Jun 19, 2008 |
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New, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers ...
Neutrons Born In Lightning
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Sep 21, 2005 |
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To produce thermonuclear reaction it is necessary, firstly, to have nuclei with a large quantity of neutrons available, for example, deuterium nuclei, and secondly, these nuclei should possess sufficiently high velocity and ...
Looking at methane sources in the right light
May 27, 2008 |
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Plants store one greenhouse gas, but emit another. Whereas they bind carbon dioxide, they release methane - albeit in small quantities. This has now been confirmed by scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...
'Heftier' atoms reduce friction at the nanoscale
Nov 01, 2007 |
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A research team led by a University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineer has discovered that friction between two sliding bodies can be reduced at the molecular, or nanoscale, level by changing the mass of the atoms at the ...
Giant laser system is under construction
Apr 24, 2008 |
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The world's largest laser system -- the National Ignition Facility -- is being built in California and officials say it will go online next year.
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