How to Use cesium in a Sentence

cesium

noun

• Time is defined in terms of cesium atoms, so the best clocks in the world are cesium clocks.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
• The second is affixed to the motion of the atoms of the element cesium.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
• But the radioactive cesium has a half-life of 30 years.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2011
• Lasers are used to slow and cool the atoms to near absolute zero, and then more lasers are used to elevate the ball of cesium up the chamber.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2017
• That includes elements like radioactive cesium, which have been known to make people sick to the point of death across the globe.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2019
• In some samples, the cesium from weapons alone was enough to render the wild boars unsafe for human consumption.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• Prussian blue helped remove cesium from the soil around the Fukushima power plant after the 2011 tsunami.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 June 2022
• The actual creation of such a clock is still a work in progress, and the cesium atom remains today the ultimate time keeper.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
• The gamma rays emitted by cesium and cobalt can kill germs multiplying in your meat and make your apples last longer.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2022
• Around the same time, the first accurate atomic clocks were being developed that used cesium.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2017
• Tests routinely come back clear, although last month a solitary black rockfish was found to have cesium levels five times the national standard, the first fish to fail the test in 16 months.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2021
• In return, Power Metals agreed to send lithium, cesium and tantalum produced at that mine to Sinomine.
  — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• Thanks to their new data, however, the researchers may have found a path to safely storing this dangerous cesium.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
• The capsule contains a radioactive isotope of cesium called cesium-137.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
• The cesium would have to be separately glassified or disposed of some other way.
  — Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
• The concentrations of radioactive cesium near Japan, for example, were much higher than the concentrations along the west coast of the US.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2018
• The government set a level of 100 becquerels of cesium per kilogram as safe for foodstuffs after Fukushima.
  — Gavin Blair, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2021
• Radioactive iodine and cesium have also turned up in milk and vegetables (such as spinach) around Fukushima.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2011
• Tokyo has stringent limits on the amount of cesium allowed in food, setting a maximum of just one-twelfth the levels permitted in the United States or the European Union.
  — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• Their cesium levels will teach us about their migration patterns.
  — Daniel Madigan, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2012
• The best of these are nearly 1000 times more accurate than the best cesium clocks, sensitive enough to pick up the effect of gravity on time due to a change in altitude of centimeters.
  — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• After the 2011 tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima power plant, Prussian Blue was one of the tools used to clean up radioactive cesium from the soil in the surrounding area.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• The particles grab on to ions of cesium, strontium, and other dangerous isotopes in the water, making room for them by spitting out sodium.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2018
• In Germany, for example, scientists have long known that the wild boars roaming forests in the country’s south contain high levels of radioactive cesium.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• What’s the Context: Once upon a time, seconds were defined in terms of the Earth’s rotation around the sun, but no more: as of 1967, the second is defined in terms of the periods of the microwaves required to bump cesium into a higher state.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2011
• The highest concentrations of cesium didn’t simply correlate to the areas with the highest rainfall.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2021
• In 1955, physicist Louis Essen created an atomic clock based on the oscillation of cesium atoms.
  — Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Chinese clock, however, is less advanced than its European counterpart, which will use cold cesium atoms.
  — Edwin Cartlidge, Science | AAAS, 20 Sep. 2017
• Cesium isn’t the end of the story, either: there are experimental clocks being developed in labs around the world based on laser light, with a much higher frequency than the microwaves used in cesium clocks.
  — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• The stomach and tissue samples of the boars that researchers tested still continued to exhibit unsafe levels of cesium isotopes.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024