(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton.)  The plasma in the reactor is heated to about one hundred million degrees Celsius, more than six times hotter than the sun, & has to be confined using this type of field
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Timeline | Princeton Plasma Physics Lab  Experiments compare plasma confinement in the figure-8 geometry with ... On February 1, Project Matterhorn is renamed the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). ... PPPL's first program to use neutral-beam injection for plasma heating is ... temperatures of approximately 200 million degrees C-- more than ten times...
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Nuclear fusion reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab will be ...  Aug 25, 2014 ... The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) has been shut down since 2012 ... it what officials say will be the most powerful fusion facility of its kind in the world. ... hotter than the sun has sat cold and quiet for more than two years. ... We may reach several hundred million degrees Celsius in the new...
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Physicist Masaaki Yamada's pioneering career at PPPL | Princeton ...  Sep 21, 2016 ... In 2015 Masaaki Yamada, distinguished laboratory research fellow at ... of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), ... or corona, can reach temperatures over 1 million degrees Celsius. ... To date, MRX data has been the basis for more than 15 PRL papers ... GPS: 100 Stellarator Road
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jeopardy/1765_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MATH PROBLEMS | If one bus can hold 50 tourists, then at least this many ... MATH PROBLEMS | The total number of yards on an NFL football field, goal line to .... Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton. .... one hundred million degrees Celsius, more than six times hotter than the sun,...
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Princeton University - PPPL to launch major upgrade of key fusion ...  Jan 9, 2012 ... NSTX project will produce most powerful spherical torus in the world. The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is ... earlier-than-expected start on a $94 million project as the next stage of ... The upgrade will double the field strength to one tesla  or 20,000 times...
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plasma | state of matter | Britannica.com  Jun 1, 2015 ... It is sometimes referred to as the fourth state of matter, distinct from the solid, ... Since these electromagnetic forces can act at large distances, a plasma ... A plasma may be produced in the laboratory by heating a gas to an extremely .... One technique is to apply an electric field to the gas to accelerate and...
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Full text of "Nbk2000.pdf" - Internet Archive  IFJs3 Download the entire NBK2000 website in PDF format! also includes .... At this point there was some slight concern that the flames might take considerable time to diminish. ... It will be colder on the top than the bottom and most of the ice has melted. ...... Computer viruses as nonlethal weapons. ..... [308] Herby, Peter.
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plasma | state of matter | Britannica.com  Jun 1, 2015 ... It is sometimes referred to as the fourth state of matter, distinct from the solid, ... Auroras, lightning, and welding arcs are also plasmas; plasmas exist in neon and ... A plasma may be produced in the laboratory by heating a gas to an ..... of different sign have an average relative velocity (i.e., if an electric...
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HSED 5.09 Science Unit 2 Name Revised August 2015  Read and complete 2.4 Threshold 2: The Stars Light Up. Read and .... dense, and unimaginably hot. ... recognizable subatomic particles and fundamental forces formed. Then the ... Now watch the Threshold 1: The Big Bang video (link found in ... materials in these clumps become more tightly packed (become denser). As.
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Cold fusion - Wikipedia  Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. This is compared with the "hot" fusion which takes place naturally within stars, under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and distinguished from ... In 1989, a claim by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann (then one of the...
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USA - PPPL  PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY ... Princeton, New Jersey 08543 ... +1 609 243 2418 (3347) Plasma Science & Technology +1 609 ... NATIONAL SPHERICAL TORUS EXPERIMENT (NSTX) (+1 609 ..... uses energetic ions to destroy bacterial spores, which are the most difficult microorganisms to eliminate.
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jeopardy/2234_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THAT'S SOUP-ER | It's the geographic name for tomato-based clam chowder | .... CHEMISTRY | For ice, it's 6 degrees Celsius; for tungsten, it's 3,410 degrees...
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Nuclear fusion - Wikipedia  In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second. In nuclear physics, nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come close enough to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons and/or ... Fusion of light elements toward these releases energy (an exothermic...
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Science In My Fiction  sff  I took to it like I took to a beating: With my guard up and my head down. .... in her chest, she has a computer to regulate and monitor each of her six sensor-types, ... there are more electrons in excited energy levels than there are in the ground state. ... Also: you can't see the laser beam traveling from the source to the target.
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Mr. Chain Reaction  Oct 4, 2012 ... 2) Polypropylene containers melt at 320 deg., so they are safe to put in this appliance that uses 140-degree water. 3) What is the most recent...
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What Really Happens When Lightning Strikes Sand: The Science ...  Jul 2, 2013 ... ... 1800 degrees Celsius, the lighting can fuse the sand into silica glass. ... When the lightning perfectly strikes the sand, it branches through it like the ... How could so-called petrified lightning ever look like the photo found on Reddit? Though fulgurite is made below the ground, it does have a way to get...
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Nuclear Energy - The Theory - Electropaedia  It is positron decay which initiates the Sun's nuclear fusion. A Hydrogen atom (proton) is transformed into a neutron which then fuses with another ..... The energy released from practical amounts of fuel can be calculated as follows: .... In 1939 Hans Bethe explained that this process occurs in the stars all over the universe but...
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Pyrophoricity - Wikipedia  A pyrophoric substance ignites spontaneously in air at or below 55 C (130 F). Examples are iron sulfide and many reactive metals including plutonium and uranium, when powdered or thinly sliced. Pyrophoric materials are often water-reactive as well and will ignite when they contact water or humid air. ... where corrosion products in steel plant equipment can ignite if exposed to air...
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The Sun - Humble ISD  The Kelvin scale starts at absolute zero, which is -273.15 degrees C (- 459.67 degrees F). Thus, the temperature of the solar surface is about 5800 K. Temperatures in ... This is a measure of the force that the field would exert on a magnetic object, .... Most of the energy emitted (sent out) by the sun is visible light and a related...
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"X-TRONIC" Model #9020-XTS Hot Air Rework & Soldering Iron ...  Product Description. WE DO NOT SHIP TO HAWAII, ALASKA, CANADA, PUERTO RICO, ... Hot Air Gun has a temp range of 100C - 480C / 212F - 896F. Soldering iron can be put into ... Put the iron back in the stand and it goes to sleep, a safe state. ... +Instructions are pretty good with nice diagrams and good translation.
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Princeton University - PPPL dedicates upgraded fusion reactor, a ...  May 23, 2016 ... NSTX-U dedication Secretary of Energy on site at PPPL ... Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX-U), ... world to explore how to create fusion reactions, wherein light elements collide and ... the challenges of plasma science," said Moniz, who also is a physicist.