rubidium

noun

ru·bid·i·um rü-ˈbi-dē-əm

: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group that reacts violently with water and bursts into flame spontaneously in air see Chemical Elements Table

Examples of rubidium in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the new study, researchers experimented with rubidium atoms trapped inside a cavity and separated into two groups of about 100,000 atoms each. —

IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2022 The technique makes use of a very cold gas (either lithium or rubidium) trapped in a magnetic field. —

Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2023 Once cooled, a series of three laser flashes are shone on the atoms, creating matter waves in the rubidium atoms. —

Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022 One table is responsible for producing laser light for trapping, cooling and imaging rubidium atoms. —

Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023 These objects begin life as an ordinary atom, such as rubidium, but are then excited so that the outermost electron is forced to orbit the nucleus at a great distance. —

The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022 Incoming photons can tweak the quantum spin of a silicon electron, creating a potentially stable memory; in a 2020 Nature paper, his team reported catching and storing quantum states for more than one-fifth of a second, far longer than in the rubidium memory. —

Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 3 June 2021 The device consists of a cloud of rubidium atoms that are cooled to temperatures nearing absolute zero. —

Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022 The team have tested the idea using rubidium atoms cooled to 40 microkelvin. —

The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022 See More

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