Generally, elements up to the atomic weight of iron release energy when you fuse them. Heavier elements generally consume energy when you fuse them, but release energy when you split them. So, when a star is done fusing hydrogen into helium, its core contracts since there's no more heat being generated to expand it outward.
Rambus, a California company, was incorporated in 1990 and re-incorporated in the state of Delaware in 1997. The company was listed on NASDAQ in 1997 under the code RMBS. As of February 2006, Rambus derived the majority of its annual revenue by licensing patents for chip interfaces to its customers.
Rhombus plural: rhombi. Definition: A quadrilateral with all four sides equal in length. Try this Drag the orange dots on each vertex to reshape the rhombus. Notice how the four sides remain the same length and the opposite sides remain parallel. A rhombus is actually just a special type of parallelogram. Recall that in a parallelogram each pair of opposite sides are equal in length. With a rhombus, all four sides are the same length.It therefore has all the properties of a parallelogram. See Definition of a parallelogram. Its a bit like a square that can 'lean over' and the interior angles need not be 90Â°. Sometimes called a 'diamond' or 'lozenge' shape.