X-Nico

unusual facts about atoms



Atomicity

Atomicity, a property of an S-expression, in a symbolic language like Lisp, to describe whether an expression is made of atoms (numbers or symbols) or is a list of S-expressions

Battle of Tamsui

One shell struck a part of Oxford College, another a corner of the Girls’ School, and still another a stone in front of us, and sent it into mid-air in a thousand atoms.

Berimbau

Mauro Refosco, a Brazilian percussionist and member of bands Forró In The Dark and Atoms For Peace, plays the berimbau in the live rendition of the Atoms' The Clock.

Bohr model

In 1913 Henry Moseley found an empirical relationship between the strongest X-ray line emitted by atoms under electron bombardment (then known as the K-alpha line), and their atomic number Z. Moseley's empiric formula was found to be derivable from Rydberg and Bohr's formula (Moseley actually mentions only Ernest Rutherford and Antonius Van den Broek in terms of models).

Centre for Quantum Computation

In 1995, Andrew Steane began an experimental effort to study how quantum computers might be built from ionised atoms trapped by laser beams.

Cluster chemistry

The suffix “oid” designate that such clusters possess at a molecular scale, atom arrangements that appear in bulk intermetallic compounds with high coordination numbers of the atoms such as for example in Laves phase and Hume-Rothery phases.

Collisional cascading

Collision cascade, collisions of atoms induced by an energetic particle in a solid or liquid

CP4

cP4, the Pearson symbol used in crystallography to describe a specific cubic crystal structure with four atoms in the unit cell

Cycloalkyne

A cycloalkyne consists of a closed ring of carbon atoms containing one or more triple bonds.

Einstein–Szilárd letter

The Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd, who was residing in the United States at the time, realized that the neutron-driven fission of heavy atoms could be used to create a nuclear chain reaction that could yield vast amounts of energy for electric power generation or atomic bombs.

Electrodeless lamp

Some electrons circling around the gas and metal atoms are excited by these collisions, bringing them to a higher energy state.

Electron orbital

Electron configuration, the arrangement of electrons in structures such as atoms or molecules

Energy applications of nanotechnology

In a study concerning ultracapacitors or supercapacitors, researchers at the Sungkyunkwan University in the Republic of Korea explored the possibility of increasing the capacitance of electrodes through the addition of fluorine atoms to the walls of carbon nanotubes.

Epsilon Canis Majoris

It is the strongest source of photons capable of ionizing hydrogen atoms in interstellar gas near the sun, and is very important in determining the ionization state of the Local Interstellar Cloud.

Existence

Thus if we reason from the statement "Pegasus flies" to the statement "Pegasus exists", we are not asserting that Pegasus is made up of atoms, but rather that Pegasus exists in a particular worldview, the worldview of classical myth.

Extended metal atom chains

The first EMACs with three metal atoms were synthesized in the early 1990s independently by the groups of Shie-Ming Peng (NTU) and F. Albert Cotton (Texas A&M), who coined the term extended metal atom chains.

F-box protein

In human cells, in high-iron condition, two iron atoms stabilise the F-Box FBXL5 and then the complex mediates the ubiquitination of IRP2.

Fact–value distinction

Positive statements make the implicit claim to facts (e.g., water molecules are made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom), whereas normative statements make a claim based on values or norms (e.g., water ought to be protected from pollution).

Ferenc Krausz

Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962 in Mór, Hungary) is a Hungarian-Austrian physicist, whose research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons’ motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics.

Gaussian noise

In telecommunications and computer networking, communication channels can be affected by wideband Gaussian noise coming from many natural sources, such as the thermal vibrations of atoms in conductors (referred to as thermal noise or Johnson-Nyquist noise), shot noise, black body radiation from the earth and other warm objects, and from celestial sources such as the Sun.

Glossary of classical physics

Crystal – a regular ordering of atoms, molecules, or ions

Grotrian diagram

The diagrams are named after Walter Grotrian, who introduced them in his 1928 paper Graphische Darstellung der Spektren von Atomen und Molekülen mit 1, 2 und 3 Valenzelektronen (Graphical representation of the spectra of atoms and molecules with 1, 2 and 3 valence electrons).

HOI

Hypoiodous acid, a weak acid consisting of hydrogen, oxygen, and iodine atoms.

Inner sphere

Inner sphere electron transfer, a chemical reaction involving closely associated atoms

Isolated Atoms

During May and June 2011 Isolated Atoms visited Los Angeles where they performed at the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Strip and appeared live on Time Warner's 'Focus In The Mix' Rock TV station with Denise Ames.

KAtomic

The Elements that make up the molecule are disassembled into separate atoms and scattered around the play field.

Lev Pavlovich Rapoport

Further modifications of the Green's function method enabled researchers to study multiphoton processes in many-electron atoms and in simple molecules and also made possible numerical calculations of higher-order relativistic effects in atomic spectra.

Love Is a Many Strangled Thing

The billion-dollar stadium includes a Loews multiplex and a Museum of Tolerance, impressing even previous anti-stadium activist Lisa and prompting Homer to tell his kids they will be paying taxes on the place long after the Atoms have left for another city.

Magnetic trap

Magneto-optical trap (or MOT), a trap using a magnetic gradient and laser light to trap neutral atoms

Magneto-optical trap

As a result of low densities and speeds of atoms achieved by optical cooling, the mean free path in a ball of MOT cooled atoms is very long, and atoms may be treated as ballistic.

Materialism

For instance Werner Heisenberg said "The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct 'actuality' of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation, however, is impossible... atoms are not things."

Maxwell Atoms

Atoms is currently an executive producer and voice actor of the Disney show Fish Hooks with Noah Z. Jones.

Mendeleev readings

Vladimir Fock — 20 April 1969 — "Can fit the chemical properties of atoms in a purely spatial representations?"

Methodic school

The core theory was disruption of the normal circulation of 'atoms' through the body's 'pores' caused disease.

Michael F. Crommie

Crommie is known for demonstrating the quantum corral in 1993 with Lutz and Eigler by using an elliptical ring of cobalt atoms on a copper surface.

NMR spectroscopy of stereoisomers

Mosher's acid contains a -CF3 group, so if the adduct has no other fluorine atoms, the 19F NMR of a racemic mixture shows just two peaks, one for each stereoisomer.

NS Savannah

Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission was the featured speaker and President Eisenhower was honored for his introduction of the global Atoms for Peace program.

Octahedral molecular geometry

The octahedron has eight faces, hence the prefix octa. The octahedron is one of the Platonic solids, although octahedral molecules typically have an atom in their centre and no bonds between the ligand atoms.

Peierls stress

Peierls stress is the force (first discovered by Rudolf Peierls and modified by Frank Nabarro) needed to move a dislocation within a plane of atoms in the unit cell.

Philadelphia Atoms

Although Clive Toye reports in his recent book that the franchise was sold to an ownership group from Montreal, he apparently confuses the fate of the next Philadelphia NASL team for that of the Atoms; the Atoms were, in fact, going to be relocated to San Antonio by their Mexican owners, who planned to replace the San Antonio Thunder franchise (which itself had just relocated to Honolulu to play as Team Hawaii).

Planetary nebula

Physicists showed in the 1920s that in gas at extremely low densities, electrons can populate excited metastable energy levels in atoms and ions which at higher densities are rapidly de-excited by collisions.

Preferred IUPAC name

Substitutive nomenclature (replacement of hydrogen atoms in the parent structure) is used most extensively, for example "ethoxyethane" instead of diethyl ether and "tetrachloromethane" instead of carbon tetrachloride.

Ramsauer

Ramsauer–Townsend effect, physical phenomenon involving the scattering of low-energy electrons by atoms of a noble gas

Recombination

Plasma recombination, the formation of neutral atoms from the capture of free electrons by the cations in a plasma

Sameera Moussa

Moussa believed in "Atoms for Peace" and said "I'll make nuclear treatment as available and as cheap as Aspirin".

Sébastien Basson

He was an early theorist of a matter theory based both on atoms and compounds.

Sound amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

For instance, in order to build the device the group from the University of Nottingham used 50 alternating layers (each just a few atoms thick) of two chemical compounds known as Aluminium arsenide and Gallium Arsenide.

Two-stage model of free will

David Sedley and Anthony Long speculated in their 1987 masterwork The Hellenistic Philosophers that Epicurus's swerve of the atoms might be limited to providing undetermined alternative possibilities for action, from which the mind's power of volition could choose in a way that reflects character and values, desires and feelings.

Walter Oelert

In 1995 under the leadership of Professor Walter Oelert, the international group of physicists in the CERN laboratory managed to show that they had obtained experimentally nine atoms of antihydrogen in a particle accelerator.

X-ray standing waves

The characteristic shape of Y p can be used to derive precise structural information about the surface atoms because the two parameters f H (coherent fraction) and P H (coherent position) are directly related to the Fourier representation of the atomic distribution function.


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