Leggett is credited with formulating "a decisive theory" to explain how their atoms are ordered.
The Apollo space program relied on hydrogen fuel cells, which work by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms.
Ionizing radiation can bring this about by breaking chemical bonds in atoms and molecules.
In fact you can drive some car on anything from methane to tetracosane (24 carbon atoms).
Because he is a member of Atoms for Peace, the group received offers to headline festivals.
"We excite the atoms to the Rydberg stage with a laser, " explained Dr Bendkowsky.
How did two atoms of hydrogen wind up welded to a single atom of oxygen?
This would involve slipping a few radioactive carbon atoms into molecules of the drugs in question.
Strip the electrons off a stream of xenon gas atoms so that they become charged (ions).
Graphene - a single-layer of carbon atoms - has extraordinary properties which give it immense potential.
But the High Court ruling will not distinguish atoms for peace from nuclear deterrence.
Cancer cells grow faster than normal cells, and so take up more boron atoms.
Imagine a sheet of carbon atoms laid out on a hexagonal grid, like chicken-wire.
We really do face a hard limit on the number of atoms available to us.
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Wolfgang Ertmer, Gerhard Birkl and their colleagues plan to use rubidium atoms as their storage devices.
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The way the X-rays scatter off the atoms in these targets reveals their arrangement.
Or make up a simple element formed out of atoms of the one kind.
The atoms of the wire would be magnetised in the direction of the field.
As electrons passed through the waist, the signal from the atoms was indeed detected.
Gas centrifuges are used to increase the proportion of fissile uranium-235 atoms within uranium.
This slowly moving clump was composed entirely of sodium atoms, effectively turning light into matter.
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With the help of a telescope, it then identifies chemical elements in the vaporized atoms.
Many of these neutrons collide with more atoms on the surface before bouncing away into space.
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This mountain certainly consists of a huge sum of atoms when huge volume is covered.
He used photons (in the form of carefully calibrated pulses of laser light) to probe atoms.
The device counts neutrons that cosmic rays have knocked out of atoms on the moon's surface.
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Despite being just 60 nanometres across, each of his dots contains millions atoms of gold.
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The most fertile areas for innovation become clear in this atoms versus bits view.
They were then dipped in an electrolyte - a fluid containing ions, electrically charged atoms.
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