Sentences with phrase «additional carbon atoms»

The genes introduced by the German group encode enzymes that add carbon double bonds to the precursors and tack on additional carbon atoms, creating a range of omega - 3 and other fatty acids.

It had three alternating carbon double bonds, called conjugations, that he had seen in some potent steroids, as well as an additional carbon atom that he recognized would give it extra strength.

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This results in defects in the lattice structure: some few carbon atoms — fewer than 1 % — separate from the lattice and are replaced with nitrogen atoms, which bring along additional electrons.

Unsaturated acid is the type of acid whose carbon chain is able to absorb additional atoms of hydrogen.

It means that by 2050 all of the world's energy demand above what we use now in 2003 — an additional 16 [terawatts]-- will have to come from some new energy supply that doesn't put a single atom of carbon into the atmosphere.