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- noun Plural form of
neutron .
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Examples
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Quarks are a way to explain neutrons; surplus maximization is a way to explain estoppel.
Balkinization 2007
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Shull took advantage of the fact that the wavelength of neutrons from a reactor may be roughly equal to the distance between the atoms in a solid body or a liquid.
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Instead it can be produced by irradiation of lithium by neutrons from a nuclear reactor.
Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 1996
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The illustration shows how neutrons from a research reactor may be used for studying structure and dynamics.
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“To our knowledge, this is the first scientific report of the production of highly energetic neutrons from a LENR device,” added the study’s co-author in a statement.
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Surrounding a very small and dense nucleus of protons and neutrons is a “cloud” of electrons with orbits as large as 100,000 times the diameter of the atom’s nucleus.
Nothing Matters 2008
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Current thinking is that a small component of dark matter is baryonic, meaning stuff composed of protons and neutrons, which is in the form of cold gas and dense, non-radiant objects such black holes, neutron stars, brown dwarfs and orphaned planets traditional known as Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects – or MACHOs.
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The two chemists had sketchy evidence for the element tritium, which can be produced when two deuterium atoms fuse, and a trickle of particles called neutrons, which are emitted in fusion but which theory suggests should be far more prolific.
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The researchers exposed the test chamber to subatomic particles called neutrons and then bombarded the liquid with a specific frequency of ultrasound, which caused cavities to form into tiny bubbles.
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In 1938, he undertook experiments in cosmic radiation and employed methods of directly recording the tracks of the particles in photographic emulsions and, when the Cockcroft machine came into operation, he employed similar methods for determining the energy of neutrons, that is, by observing the tracks of the recoiling protons.
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