Sentences with phrase «negative electrical charges»

In storms, ice and liquid water not only are key ingredients for separating the positive and negative electrical charges that initiate a lightning strike; they also are the main features detected by microwave sensors on satellites.

Bentonite clay is made up of a high number of tiny platelets, with negative electrical charges on their flat surfaces and positive charges on their edges.

Negative electrical charges on their outer surfaces help to align them with the positive charges on one inner surface of the chamber.

(Zwitterions are molecules that have areas of both positive and negative electrical charges, which cancel out to make them neutral overall.)

An electrolyte is any substance containing atoms or molecules that have positive or negative electrical charges.

It's known that lightning is caused by buildup of positive and negative electrical charges inside a cloud.

Biologist Daniel Robert and colleagues at the University of Bristol in England already knew that flowers usually carry a negative electrical charge, while bees tend to be positively charged.

Its outer coating also has a negative electrical charge that repels the negatively charged immune cells.

That gives them a negative electrical charge.

It is covered with many sugars and carries a negative electrical charge.

An ion is an atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons, giving the atom a net positive or negative electrical charge.

Due to its porous nature and negative electrical charge, activated charcoal can bind to a vast variety of drugs and toxins in the digestive tract, preventing them from absorbing into the bloodstream and safely escorting them out of the body.

This may be due to its ability to remain stable and carry a negative electrical charge, attracting positively charged free radicals.

The unique adsorbing and absorbing structure and negative electrical charge make G.I. Detox ™ one of the best products of its kind.

Electrons have a negative electrical charge.

Once an atom has fewer electrons, with a negative electrical charge, than protons, with a positive electrical charge, this atom now has more positive electrical charge than negative electrical charge - we therefore say that this atom is, itself, positively charged.

Colloidal Silver - A fluid containing predominantly minute silver particles held in suspension, where the particles carry a slight negative electrical charge known as a zeta potential.

It is primarily the effect of macro-minerals that matters here: those with negative electrical charge - phosphorus, sulfur and chlorine - are attracted to the positive H + ion from bodily fluids, forming phosphoric, sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, respectively.

For example, bentonite clay works by producing a negative electrical charge when it comes in contact with liquid.

Not exact matches

Atkins even argues that «the substrate of existence is nothing at all», because the total electrical charge of the universe is zero due to the balance of positive and negative particles.

What's more, electrical charges can be positive (like a proton's) or negative (like an electron's).

In a lithium - ion battery, positively charged lithium ions move toward a battery's negative electrode to create an electrical current.

The electrical conductivity of these polymers depends on their oxidation state — that is, the number of positive or negative charges in their polymer chains.

For instance electrical and magnetic forces have offsetting contributions; you might have a positive and negative charge or a north pole and south pole and those things tend to cancel out.

An ionic liquid contains negative and positive ions which can interact with the nanotubes, dramatically influencing their ability to store an electrical charge.

They increase the amount of beneficial negative ions in the air, counterbalancing the positive ion charge from electrical equipment.

When the wind blows through them, it separates positive and negative charges as it moves the mist, which builds up to an almost 200,000 volt direct electric current that the system transmits through a high voltage cable back to the electrical grid on land.

This setup regulates the electrical charge via those outer plates, moving the inner material back and forth between positive and negative to vibrate the molecules in the air and create sound waves.