Nanoparticle catalysts convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide to make useful compounds
As a greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) contributes to climate change as it accumulates in the atmosphere. One way to ...
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Move Over Cesium Clock, Optical Clocks Are Taking Over
When the microwave signal exactly matches the material’s resonance frequency — 9.192631770 GHz, in the case of cesium — the number of atoms changing state will be at a maximum, so you know ...
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Cesium Clock Teardown, Or Quantum Physics Playground
Maybe that’s even more than half of the fun. [CuriousMarc] got an HP 5061A Cesium clock, a somewhat famous instrument as the model that attempted to prove the theory of relativity. The reason?
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How Ancillary Technology Shapes What We Do In Physics
During the question-and-answer period afterwards, somebody asked a really good question: Why cesium? That is, of all the atoms in the periodic table, why pick cesium, specifically, as the basis ...
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Anthropocene or not, it is our current epoch that we should be fighting for
Scientists find evidence of this in lakes around the world in the form of trace amounts of Plutonium and Cesium in the sediments ... the highest global carbon dioxide emissions yet, but these ...
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CesiumAstro claims former exec spilled trade secrets to upstart competitor AnySignal
Austin-based Cesium develops active-phased array and software-defined radio systems for spacecraft, missiles and drones. While phased-array antenna systems have been used on satellites for decades ...
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Studying the ocean's history
The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon dioxide increase during the last deglaciation that took place 20,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to a new report by Boston ...
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Economic Impacts of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Grossly Underestimated, a New Stanford Study Suggests
But the findings echo research elsewhere suggesting that the community of nations might be wildly low-balling the potential economic damages associated with each new ton of carbon dioxide being ...
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35 Most Valuable Gemstones, From Least to Most Expensive
Although this stone is sometimes called "red beryl," pezzottaite isn’t a beryl at all but actually a silicate formed by cesium ... when water and silicon dioxide leak into natural faults ...
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Carbon dioxide, methane levels in the atmosphere hit record highs last year
Carbon dioxide, the most important and abundant of the greenhouse gases caused by humans, rose in 2023 by the third highest amount in 65 years of record keeping, NOAA announced Friday. Scientists ...
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Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again
Carbon dioxide, the most important and abundant of the greenhouse gases caused by humans, rose in 2023 by the third highest amount in 65 years of record keeping, NOAA announced Friday. Scientists ...