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rubidium

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rubidium /ru·bid·i·um/ (roo-bid´e-um) a chemical element, at. no. 37, symbol Rb.
rubidium 82  a radioactive isotope of rubidium having a half-life of 1.273 minutes and decaying by positron emission; used as a tracer in positron emission tomography.
ru·bid·i·um (r-bd-m)
n. Symbol Rb
A soft metallic element of the alkali group. Atomic number 37.
rubidium (Rb)
[roo͡bid′ē·əm]
Etymology: L, rubidus, reddish
a soft metallic element of the alkali metals group. Its atomic number is 37, and its atomic mass is 85.47. Slightly radioactive, it is used in radioisotope scanning.
rubidium [roo-bid´e-um]
a chemical element, atomic number 37, atomic weight 85.47, symbol Rb. (See Appendix 6.)
rubidium 82 a radioactive isotope of rubidium having a half-life of 1.273 minutes and decaying by positron emission. It is used as a tracer in positron emission tomography.
rubidium
a chemical element, atomic number 37, atomic weight 85.47, symbol Rb. See Table 6.
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According to a report in National Geographic News, in a new technique, Martin Weitz and Ulrich Vogl of the University of Bonn in Germany used a laser to bring the temperature of dense rubidium gas far below the normal point at which the gas becomes a solid.
Laser cooling may be used to create "exotic" states of matter by Asian News International
The Rydberg molecules in question were formed from two atoms of rubidium - one a Rydberg atom, and one a normal atom.
New molecule made that earlier existed only in theories: BBC by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
Hallmarks of an exotic, predicted state of matter called a supersolid have been spotted in a gas of ultracold rubidium atoms.
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