cosmic rays in English
This radioactive isotope is created when energetic particles in cosmic rays enter the Earth's atmosphere and split atomic nuclei of nitrogen and oxygen.
Use "cosmic rays" in a sentence
1. Damaging cosmic rays also bombard the planets.
2. They would come ramming in like cosmic rays.
3. Carbon-14 is continuously generated by cosmic rays in the atmosphere.
4. Observations suggest that shock waves in different Astrophysical environments accelerate cosmic rays efficiently
5. In 1925, Robert Millikan confirmed Hess's findings and subsequently coined the term 'cosmic rays'.
6. Cosmic-rays can also eject atoms, ions and electrons from matter in the magnetosphere.
7. The AMS-02 collaboration has released preliminary data on the Antiproton fraction in cosmic rays
8. Cosmic rays provide one of our few direct samples of matter from outside the solar system
9. The detector, named Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02), captures cosmic rays coming from throughout our galaxy.
10. It didn't take a trauma, or cosmic rays or a power ring to make a superhero.
11. Two photometers were on board for measuring solar radiation (ultraviolet and x-ray emissions) and cosmic rays.
12. Neutron monitors measure by proxy the intensity of cosmic rays striking the Earth, and its variation with time.
13. Firstly with cosmic rays, and then with particle accelerators, machines that smash together subatomic particles at great energies.
14. 9 Glaser switched his area of research from bubble chambers and cosmic rays to molecular biology and biophysics.
15. It was designed to measure solar x-ray and Lyman-alpha flux, trapped energetic particles, and heavy primary cosmic rays.
16. Some of the very energetic ions and electrons which reach the Earth and which we observe as cosmic-rays probably originate from Jupiter.
17. N0080 Natural radioactivity Atmospheric radioactivity which originates from cosmic rays, gamma radiation from the soil and from atmospheric radon, thoron, actinon and their decomposition products.
18. The cosmic rays are in all likelihood produced in the high-speed collision of the star cluster with a gas cloud in its path.
19. The existence of the Antiproton was predicted by contemporary theories of elementary particles, and research for its existence in cosmic rays was conducted for about 20
20. This action of ionization may result from various causes, but in the clear, lower atmosphere the chief agent is the cosmic rays that bombard us from outer space.
21. Belter was a member of the Unparalleled, a group of protectors of the planet Spyre who subjected themselves to cosmic rays on behalf of their patriarch, the Overseer
22. Carbon-14 A by-product of cosmic rays The nucleus of Carbon 14 contains 6 protons and 8 neutrons, as opposed to the 6 and 6 found in ordinary carbon 12
23. 12 The inelastic cross-section and the distribution of the number of wounded nucleons in proton-Air collision have significant influence on the development of EAS caused by superhigh energy cosmic rays.
24. In the extended magnetosphere of planets, antiprotons can be produced from the decay of cosmic ray Antineutrons which are generated from interactions between cosmic rays and matter located in the vicinity of the planet
25. Bremsstrahlung is one of the processes by which cosmic rays dissipate some of their energy in the Earth’s atmosphere. Solar X rays have been attributed to Bremsstrahlung generated by fast electrons passing through the matter in the part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the chromosphere.
26. And the reason why they have to go underground is that, if you did this experiment on the surface of the Earth, the same experiment would be swamped by signals that could be created by things like cosmic rays, ambient radio activity, even our own bodies.
27. Airglow is caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere, such as the recombination of atoms, which were photoionized by the sun during the day, luminescence caused by cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere and chemiluminescence caused mainly by oxygen and nitrogen reacting with hydroxyl ions at heights of a few hundred kilometres