Search results for "Ionization energy" - New World Encyclopedia
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- which can release large amounts of energy both as electromagnetic radiation ... Nuclear fission produces energy for nuclear power and to drive the ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- across the p-n junction causes a wave of ionization, reminiscent of an avalanche ... thousands or millions of electron volts of energy, generates many charge carrier ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- and partly because of the high kinetic energy of the particles. ... solar flare. This is a sudden outburst of energy from the Sun's atmosphere ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 00:46, 4 February 2023
- Since fluorescent lamps use considerably less energy than incandescent ... atom to temporarily jump up to a higher energy level to absorb some, or ...43 KB (6,681 words) - 17:46, 28 March 2024
- * In nuclear energy applications, it is used in bubble chambers, probes ... of its high molecular weight, ease of ionization, storability as a liquid ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- of air friction is useful for flywheel energy storage and ultracentrifuges. ... sea of particles possessing negative energy, called the Dirac sea. This ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- is much cooler than the sun, it radiates energy at much longer wavelengths ... that are of the same magnitude as the energy of the photons on infrared ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 17:16, 16 February 2023
- percent of the solar system's mass. Energy from the Sun—in the form ... million tons of matter are converted into energy each second, producing neutrinos ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- space, and that most of the radiation energy in the universe is in the ... which is much less than the 13.6 eV ionization energy of hydrogen. Since ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- hydrogen, and its specific heat (amount of energy required to raise the temperature ... the other noble gases, it has metastable energy levels that allow it to remain ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:19, 25 January 2023
- An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ... as ozone formation, but not so much that ionization destroys incipient life. ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth. Other stars are ... html A Brief History of High-Energy (X-ray & Gamma-Ray) Astronomy ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- and 500 MJ (megajoules), or enough energy to power a 100 watt lightbulb ... driven apart by the above mechanism and energy is stored in the electric ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- is, a significant portion of the total energy output from the galaxy is ... nucleus results from the gravitational energy of matter as it falls toward ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- undergo before fracture by releasing strain energy. CNTs are not nearly ... magnetic axis, and potentially store energy at a density approaching ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- water is removed from molecules (through energy-requiring enzymatic reactions ... Photosynthetic cells use the Sun's energy to split off water's ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- The use of two x-ray units makes possible the use of dual energy imaging ... 2004, Interpretation of whole body dual energy X-ray absorptiometry measures ...61 KB (9,364 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
