Examples of rubidium in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web However, the trap that holds the rubidium atoms can be tuned to efficiently suck energy out of them. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022 Physicist Ron Folman of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and his colleagues re-created the Stern-Gerlach experiment using not individual atoms but a cloud of rubidium atoms. — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2022 In a media statement, the company stated that their rubidium atomic clock would deliver a frequency stability of about 2x10-14 over averaging intervals of 10,000 seconds. — Jennifer Kite-powell, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021 The team loaded 200 million rubidium atoms into their vacuum chamber and passed laser light through all the optics components, making the light collide with the atoms. — Karmela Padavic-callaghan, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021 In that vacuum chamber, 18 tiny collections of rubidium atoms — about 10,000 to a group — are arranged in a line and cooled to phenomenally low temperatures, a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021 Atoms of rubidium, a heavy cousin of the more familiar lithium and sodium, are appealing because their internal quantum states can be set and controlled by light. — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 3 June 2021 The physicists used rubidium atoms that had been cooled to temperatures about a millionth of a degree Kelvin above absolute zero as a starting point for their plasma—an extremely cold temperature instead of the extremely hot one inside the sun. — Karmela Padavic-callaghan, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021 The researchers reported that the rubidium atoms spent, on average, 0.61 milliseconds inside the barrier, in line with Larmor clock times theoretically predicted in the 1980s. — Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020 See More

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