Meanings of rubidium atoms in English

But to say "two thousand rubidium atoms" obscures what's so special about the BEC.

There weren't two thousand rubidium atoms as much as one giant marshmallow of a rubidium atom.

The rubidium atoms were bigger and more powerful, so this was like shooting a machine gun at a screaming asteroid.

Using optical tweezers, University of Otago physicists led by Niels Kjaergaard are splitting tiny clouds of rubidium atoms and smashing them together.

Size disparities notwithstanding, shooting an asteroid with enough bullets will eventually halt it, and that's exactly what happened to the rubidium atoms.

Images: 1) A diagram of the chip, showing the channel through which light travels to hit a capillary full of rubidium atoms.

Bloch and his team were able to maintain this high state of order over a network containing some 150,000 rubidium atoms.

As the light passed through the rubidium atoms, they acted like a speed bump, slowing it down by a factor of 1,200.