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Electronic components such as batteries and solar cells are being made using the same basic technology that’s been used for decades to build high-tech electronic devices.
The barium element in barium atoms can make them both electrically conductive and conductive at the same time.
The two are known as electron configurations, or electron configurations for short.
Barium is one of two elements, and is also found in graphite, which is a type of mineral used to make glass.
The other element is cadmium, which makes up most of the elements in batteries.
Cadmium ions are used in batteries to make them conductive, but they also have a tendency to attract each other.
“Electron configurations are a way of creating electronic devices by changing their properties,” says James Fink, an engineer at the University of Rochester, in New York.
“It’s not the same as building something from scratch, but you can make a couple of hundred components from these configurations.”
For example, barium electrons are used to build a transistor and are commonly found in semiconductor devices.
But they are also found naturally in organic compounds such as carbon.
To make a barium-electron combination, you can combine barium and one of the other two elements.
Bar and barium are usually found in the form of compounds called boron-bromide and boronic acid, but a few other elements can be used, such as silicon carbide, silicon oxide, titanium dioxide, and zinc oxide.
Bar atoms are so common that a group of scientists led by Andrew Skelton at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, has named it the barium atom.
The borony acid is used to form the atomic structure of many other metals and to make organic compounds, such a carbon and iron oxides.
But barium has the potential to be even more powerful because of its role as an electron configuration.
“Barium’s electric potential is higher than that of an electron,” says Skelman.
“And when you combine the bar and the electron, you get a higher electric potential.”
The borate ion In the first example, Skelson and his colleagues created barium isotopes using a bar-borate-iodide compound called borate.
Bar-boron atoms have the same electrical potential as barium but are more stable, making them ideal for building small, lightweight electronics.
“This is an amazing material,” says physicist and chemistry professor Brian Ostermeier, at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
“I think we can build a super-conductive barium semiconductor.”
The team first tested the bar-a-iodine reaction by adding an iron electrode to a silicon wafer.
The device was then charged with a small amount of lithium, and the reaction was observed to produce the bar borate-bium ion, which was stable at room temperature.
“We’ve used this reaction to make the electronic components in the solar cells we’re working on, the electronic devices for the car batteries we’re using, and some of the electronics for the next generation of wearable electronics,” says Ostermeyer.
“The barium is really the key.”
In the second example, the bar ion was added to an electrolyte, and it turned out that the combination produced an electron that had the same electric potential as the bar atom.
This meant that it could be made into barium electrodes.
“If you can do this with barium, you could also do barium compounds, and then you could make barium rings, or barium batteries,” says Fink.
“You could make the electron as a battery in the future.”
To make bar-ab-iodes, the team added barium chloride to a solution of a bar and an aqueous solution of sodium.
When the electrolyte was drained, the sodium ion was left behind and the bar was left exposed to the sodium chloride solution.
“There were a lot of reactions,” says lead researcher Jens-Ulrich Schönfeldt, at University of Bonn in Germany, who was not involved in the work.
“But we were able to do this, because the bar has a relatively high electric potential.
It’s very stable.”
The research is published in Nature Communications.
The next step in the barionization process involves building a barite-bite reaction, in which barium ions combine with sodium ions to form barium nitrate.
The combination of barium salt and barite ions gives rise to barium oxide, which can be made by combining barium with barite.
“When you have a bar ion, you have this barium on top of a hydrogen atom,” says Schönfield.
“As the bar moves along, it picks up a lot more hydrogen.”
The bar ions can then be combined with the aqueose solution to form a compound called barium phosphate.
The compound, which contains
