News tagged with silver iodide
China to step up efforts to control Mother Nature
China plans to step up a weather-manipulation programme that has stirred debate about tinkering with Mother Nature, state media said on Friday.
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Time for a rain dance? Research finds 'cloud seeding' doesn't produce rain
In many areas of the world, including California's Mojave Desert, rain is a precious and rare resource. To encourage rainfall, scientists use "cloud seeding," a weather modification process designed to increase precipitation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 01, 2010 |
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In or out: Setting a trap for radioactive iodine
Nuclear power plants produce a host of radioactive isotopes as by-products. One such radioisotope is Iodine-129 (129I). With a half-life of nearly 16 million years, the 129I produced by nuclear power plan ...
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought
(AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a team of Sandia chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste.
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Lasers could be used to make rain (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Optical physicists in Europe have shown that lasers can be used to create tiny water droplets when they are fired into the air. The idea could eventually develop into an alternative to cloud ...
May 04, 2010 |
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Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought
(AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2009 |
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Atmospheric lead causes clouds to form more easily, could change pattern of rain and snow
(PhysOrg.com) -- By sampling clouds -- and making their own -- researchers have shown for the first time a direct relation between lead in the sky and the formation of ice crystals that foster clouds. The ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Probing Question: Can humans control the weather?
Chinese officials claimed they prevented rain on the first day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by launching rockets into the rain clouds the night before. Emeritus professor of meteorology Charles L. Hosler asserts ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Rain, snow forms with aid of living organisms: study
Brent Christner, LSU professor of biological sciences, in partnership with colleagues in Montana and France, recently found evidence that rain-making bacteria are widely distributed in the atmosphere. These ...
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Feb 28, 2008 |
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Mobile metal atoms
Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods—the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power. These batteries offer the highest energy density, allow ...
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Mobile Metal Atoms: New class of lithium-rich solids with unusually high lithium mobility
Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods—the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power.
Dec 28, 2007 |
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Researchers uncover factors that control ion motion in solid electrolytes
University of Cincinnati researchers show for the first time that they can connect an increase in electrical (ionic) conductivity with flexibility of their networks. The same team of researchers discovered intermediate phases ...
May 08, 2007 |
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Sandia's Z machine creates ice in nanoseconds
Sandia’s huge Z machine, which generates termperatures hottter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds. However, don’t expect anything commercial just yet: the ice is hotter than the boiling point ...
Mar 15, 2007 |
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