Science news articles about 'sodium atoms'

... electrons are removed, it becomes chemically analogous to sodium atoms, which have 11 electrons as well. Ordinary ... scientists have termed the "D" spectral lines. Sodium-like tungsten ions emit intense ...

... year during the first flyby Jan. 14 provided LASP researchers with evidence that about 10 percent of the sodium atoms ejected from Mercury's hot surface during the daytime were accelerated into a 25, ...

... two dimensions: an ultracold gas of interacting atoms would undergo the analogous “Berezinskii, Kosterlitz ... trap and cool a micron-thick layer of sodium atoms, confined to move in only two dimensions ...

... during the first flyby in January 2008 provided LASP researchers with evidence that about 10 percent of the sodium atoms ejected from Mercury's hot surface during the daytime were accelerated into a ...

... telescopes can detect even a small number of sodium atoms orbiting Saturn. Observations by Schneider's ... process is slow the vapor contains little sodium, just like water evaporating from the ocean. ...