How to Use nuclear magnetic resonance in a Sentence

nuclear magnetic resonance

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Definition of nuclear magnetic resonancenext
  • One of the drawbacks of quantum computation based on nuclear magnetic resonance is that the machines cannot handle more than a dozen or so qubits.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2021
  • This is not the place to describe nuclear magnetic resonance imaging or satellite technology in prospecting, but these had been used, without finding the coppery deposits that indicate a source of cobalt.
    — Paul Theroux, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • Using nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy to analyze the instruments’ wood, Nagyvary found that metallic salts may have played a role in these instruments’ nuanced tones.
    — Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
  • By contrast, the SpinQ machine is much less powerful, able to process just 2 qubits, and relies on an entirely different technology called nuclear magnetic resonance.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2021
  • AlphaFold’s predictions were poor matches to experimental structures determined by a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, but this could be down to how the raw data is converted into a model, says Moult.
    — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Isidor Rabi first measured nuclear magnetic resonance in 1938.
    — Donna Strickland, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2019
  • During her graduate years Dwyer joined a research group that was studying small organic molecules and conducting research using nuclear magnetic resonance.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • In their eagerness to understand the material world, scientists have invented a variety of ways to picture the interior life of cells, using X-rays, electron microscopy, or nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
    — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Behind Olesik, in a frigid room crammed with $15.4 million worth of nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers that look like stubby spaceships, scientists are analyzing how polymer chains interact, down to their individual amino acids.
    — Jon Marcus, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Monitoring the reactions in real-time with a mass spectrometer, a nuclear magnetic resonance machine, and an infrared spectrometer, the system eventually learned to predict which combinations would be the most reactive.
    — Dan Falk, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2019
  • Alternative approaches, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and cryoelectron microscopy, also require large amounts of a protein and can take months.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 June 2019
  • More recently, two other experimental methods—nuclear magnetic resonance and cryogenic electron microscopy—have also been used.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020

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