Word: ion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other unmanned probes NASA has launched, the ship will be navigated by an electronic brain that has been likened to HAL, the independent-minded computer in the film 2001, and will move through space under power of a system that has long been the stuff of technological fantasies: an ion propulsion engine...
...kids have to go downstairs to get to the Petroleum Club. ION Storm, the hottest name in what the industry calls 3-D shooter games, rents the penthouse suite on the 54th and 55th floors, with nothing but clouds and glass for a ceiling. When they first started riding the elevators, says company president Hall, 33, the suits "thought we were delivery boys...
Keep one thing in mind, says Breslin. All ION Storm's games, several of which will be released in the next 1 1/2 years, are about good vs. evil. And about character growth. "Splattered blood and flying meat" just make the experience more real, says Romero...
...measured the radio station that is one antiproton...and we listened to one proton...and we compared back and forth to see if they have the same oscillation ion frequency in the same field [to determine] if they have the same properties," Gabrielse said...
Gabrielse and Khabbaz used a negative hydrogen ion instead of a proton in the experiment because it allowed for greater accuracy of measurement after correcting for the additional electrons of the ion...