Sentences with phrase «about hydrogen bonding»

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Another major advantage the catalysts have is that, while they are general in what substrate they can oxidize, they are very specific about which carbon - hydrogen bonds they cut — so much so that they target a certain spot on amino acids like proline, leucine or valine even when they are part of a much larger peptide chain.

About four billion years ago, the strength of those hydrogen - carbon bonds allowed increasingly complex molecules — amino acids, DNA, and proteins — to form from the primordial soup, making life possible.

In the most common motif, created about 57 % of the time, hydroxide's oxygen atoms bonded with the hydrogen atoms on 4 water molecules while the hydroxide's hydrogen bonded to the oxygen atom on another water molecule.

Learn about water molecules: All you really need to know to do this activity is that the water molecule is made from the bonding of two atoms of hydrogen to one atom of oxygen.