heavy element

collocation in English

meaningsofheavyandelement

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heavy
adjective
uk
/ˈhev.i/us
/ˈhev.i/
weighing a lot, and needing effort to move ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofheavyandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One beam, which is a high-intensity bunched beam of aheavyelementlike uranium, could be used to heat the target material.
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This pair of beams may consist of a main high-intensity bunched beam of someheavyelementlike uranium and a low-intensity unbunched beam of a lighter element like argon.
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That is a question which has aheavyelementof policy in it.
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Caesium, being aheavyelement, provides good stopping power, contributing to better detectivity.
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It is also possible thatheavyelementcores, such as iron, simply sink beneath the surface, leaving only light nuclei like helium and hydrogen cores.
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In 1944, his actinide concept ofheavyelementelectronic structure changed the periodic table to include the transition series of transuranium elements.
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Its lowheavyelementcontent was first recognized by spectroscopic analysis in 1963.
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In both cases of the evolution of stars, heavy elements may be recycled to form new stars and terrestrial planets.
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As a result, stars that were born from it late in the galaxy, formed with much higher initialheavyelementabundances than those that had formed earlier.
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We are looking for examples of light elements in postverbal position and the categories below have - at least potentially - heavy elements.
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It is thought that these objects produced the first heavy elements, although with a different nucleosynthetic signature to those produced by later generations of stars.
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Ni, discovered in 1999, is the most proton-richheavyelementisotope known.
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The r-process is responsible for our natural cohort of radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, as well as the most neutron-rich isotopes of eachheavyelement.
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Heavy elements produced in first stars would change the conditions for future star formation.
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The tops of cores tend to be an acidic-organic mix rich in heavy elements, while the bottoms are largely gypsum and are more basic.
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