How to Use rubidium in a Sentence

rubidium

noun

• The team have tested the idea using rubidium atoms cooled to 40 microkelvin.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• In the case of the Judeo-Christian Bible, there's nothing about rubidium and strontium, the five layers of the atmosphere, anything like that.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
• Once cooled, a series of three laser flashes are shone on the atoms, creating matter waves in the rubidium atoms.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022
• The technique makes use of a very cold gas (either lithium or rubidium) trapped in a magnetic field.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2023
• Each of these tiny blobs consists of 8,000 rubidium atoms that Steinhauer has cooled to near absolute zero and then swished around with a laser.
  — Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
• The condensate is a cloud of rubidium atoms that has been cooled to nanokelvin temperatures.
  — Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
• This keeps the rubidium atoms diffuse, slow moving and in a highly excited state.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• However, the trap that holds the rubidium atoms can be tuned to efficiently suck energy out of them.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
• The scientists used microwave pulses to analyze the behavior of the rubidium atoms to use them as atomic clocks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2022
• Cornell and Wieman were trying to cool a puff of rubidium gas to within a few billionths of a degree of absolute zero—colder than any place in nature, even the 2.73 kelvins of space.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2017
• The team loaded 200 million rubidium atoms into their vacuum chamber and passed laser light through all the optics components, making the light collide with the atoms.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
• The equipment will cool rubidium and potassium atoms by scattering laser light off the particles in all directions to slow them to almost a standstill.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• Researchers start with two identical stations in a single lab, each containing a cloud of rubidium atoms.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 Feb. 2020
• Atoms of rubidium, a heavy cousin of the more familiar lithium and sodium, are appealing because their internal quantum states can be set and controlled by light.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 3 June 2021
• The Harvard initiative, led by Mikhail Lukin, uses rubidium atoms.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2019
• But vaporizing rubidium with a laser and keeping it ultracold creates a cloud the researchers contain in a small tube and magnetize.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• The device consists of a cloud of rubidium atoms that are cooled to temperatures nearing absolute zero.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022
• To do this, Stenhauer shot a laser composed of rubidium atoms through an environment cooled to almost absolute zero.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2016
• These objects begin life as an ordinary atom, such as rubidium, but are then excited so that the outermost electron is forced to orbit the nucleus at a great distance.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• In this case, researchers are using laboratory-favorite rubidium, one of just a handful of elements known to form BECs.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2020
• Earth’s crust is abundant with a slightly radioactive isotope of rubidium that, over time, decays into strontium.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
• The physicists used rubidium atoms that had been cooled to temperatures about a millionth of a degree Kelvin above absolute zero as a starting point for their plasma—an extremely cold temperature instead of the extremely hot one inside the sun.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
• One table is responsible for producing laser light for trapping, cooling and imaging rubidium atoms.
  — Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• The question is how to interpret the bizarre analogy between a fluid of rubidium atoms in a lab in Israel and the mysterious astrophysical abysses most often created when huge stars exhaust their fuel and collapse inward.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• Image: Individual rubidium atoms form into a single super-atom in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
  — Adam Mann, WIRED, 18 June 2012
• The new model suggests our home planet contains significantly more sodium, potassium, chlorine, zinc, strontium, fluorine, gallium, rubidium, niobium, gadolinium, tantalum, helium, argon, and krypton than previously believed.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024