There are three isotopes of hydrogen: hydrogen, deuterium (hydrogen-2) and tritium (hydrogen-3): if the atom loses one or more electrons, it becomes a positively-charged ion if the atom gains one ...

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams ... which removes the atom's electrons, creating a positively charged ion. Those ions are then guided into the linear accelerator, where they are moved through ...

European consortium for new quantum frontiers get 3.2 million euros from EU to boost silicon-based quantum technologies.

Researchers are leveraging the established silicon infrastructure to pioneer donor spin qubits for quantum computing. The ...

Oxygen, for example, has eight protons. However, the number of neutrons in an atom can vary, leading to different forms of elements, called isotopes. The recently observed type of oxygen is one ...

Experimental observations of the half life of rutherfordium-252 demonstrate that its stability lies well within the limits required for full atoms to form ...

As a result, concentrations down to one atom in 1017 atoms are measurable ... analyzers are used to measure the abundance of a rare isotope, 14C in this case. Negative carbon ions are drawn from a ...