News tagged with sodium atoms
Making sodium-ion batteries that are worth their salt
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although lithium-ion technology dominates headlines in battery research and development, a new element is making its presence known as a potentially powerful alternative: sodium.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Under pressure, sodium and hydrogen could undergo a metamorphosis, emerging as a superconductor
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the search for superconductors, finding ways to compress hydrogen into a metal has been a point of focus ever since scientists predicted many years ago that electricity would flow, uninhibited, through ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Ground-based lasers vie with satellites to map Earth's magnetic field
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mapping the Earth's magnetic field – to find oil, track storms or probe the planet's interior – typically requires expensive satellites.
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Water Motions Revealed (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gaze into a glass of water, and you're unlikely to see much more than your own reflection. But gaze a little deeper using a microscope -- or, better yet, a series of laser pulses and detectors ...
May 21, 2010 |
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The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast. Wind and waves kick up spray, and bits of sodium chloride - common table salt - can permeate the air.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers from underground ocean
Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity
(Physorg.com) -- If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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