Sentences with phrase «attracts water molecules»

Salt is naturally hygroscopic, which means it attracts water molecules to itself.

That means it attracts water molecules from the surrounding environment.

The outer layer of the gobstopper is a stealth layer; much as in the technique used by Doxil and other first - generation nanodrugs, its surface attracts water molecules, so the particle can avoid notice by the body's patrolling immune cells.

The researchers found that if the silica tends to have hydrophilic silanol groups on its surface, it attracts water molecules, in effect forming a «soft barrier» of water molecules that reactants would have to overcome to somehow penetrate to proceed with the desired process or reaction.

The grooves attracted water molecules and wicked them straight up in defiance of gravity.

A large block of salt, like a pink Himalayan salt rock crystal, works by attracting the water molecules in your room.

The charged particles then attract water molecules (from water vapor in the atmosphere) to form clouds.

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A surfactant is the scientific name for an emulsifier, a.k.a. something that attracts both water and oil molecules and binds them together.

When a water molecule is more attracted to the plant, it is pulled towards the plant tissue, but as water molecules are highly attracted to each other the first molecule brings further water molecules with it.

Plants are not like us with pumping mechanism that pushes our blood around, so water moves up the vessel by adhesion (being attracted to the side of the vessel) and cohesion (water molecules being attracted to each other).

All detergents work in basically the same way: they contain molecules that enable them to be soluble in water and attract oil and dirt to them.

These oxygens have a partial negative charge (as in the molecule of water) and the oxygen atom attracts the electrons of the bonds more effectively.

They began by coating one AFM tip with an ink consisting of 16 - mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA), an organic molecule capped with a water - attracting carboxylic acid group.

These larger, charged molecules could attract the atmosphere's sparse water, creating what Plane calls «dirty» ice crystals.

Opposite charges attract, so water molecules tend to stick to each other as a positive hydrogen atom of one molecule attaches itself to the oxygen atom of its neighbour.

The two hydrogen atoms of the molecules tend to attract neighboring water molecules.

This allowed them to investigate the phenomena of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity at the molecular level, i.e. why certain parts of organic molecules attract or repel water.

These molecules repel water at one end and attract it at the other, properties that cause them to self - assemble into spherical structures, which can encapsulate large payloads of biological molecules.

Alternating water - repelling and water - attracting parts of the protein tug nearby water molecules into an orderly, icelike arrangement.

They then attached acid molecules to the nanoparticles, forming rows of nodes (like lights lining the sides of airport runways) that strongly attract water.

Two features make this polymer ultrastrong, Sachleben told Live Science: Its molecules, or «beads,» are strongly attracted to one another; and hydrogen bonds — the same bonds found in DNA, as well as water molecules — keep the «beaded strings» tightly interlocked with their neighboring beaded strings, Sachleben said.

Much like a magnet being pulled by another magnet, these newly charged molecules become attracted to the positive and negative charges in water.

Activated carbon is widely used to filter water in this way, but PFOA molecules are only moderately attracted to the material.

With one end attracted to water and the other end repelled by it, the surfactant molecules travel to the surface of the drop once it is immersed in oil.

Water molecules are more attracted to each other than to air molecules and form a spherical shape to maximise contact between water molecules, which leaves as few as possible exposed to theWater molecules are more attracted to each other than to air molecules and form a spherical shape to maximise contact between water molecules, which leaves as few as possible exposed to thewater molecules, which leaves as few as possible exposed to the air.

On the other hand, water isn't as attracted to hydrophobic materials, making the molecules easier to move and producing lower viscosity.

«It opens the doors to using hydrogen bonds to make surfaces hydrophilic, or attracted to water, and to (template) these surfaces for the selective absorption of other molecules possessing fundamental similarities to water,» Mavrikakis says.

In the latter case, the researchers realized that hydroxyl behaves as a sort of anchor, setting the template for a tidy hexameric ring of water molecules attracted to the metal's surface.

The iodine's cationic behavior strongly attracts the negative oxygen atoms on three nearby water molecules.

In water solution, the combination of DNA, which is attracted to water molecules, and lipids, which are repelled by water, causes the Y units to self - assemble into hollow spheres from 100 to 5,000 nanometers in diameter, consisting of multiple layers of DNA, lipid and cargo.

The reason is that one molecule of glycogen attracts 3 - 4 molecules of water and as a result of it, when your body gets rid of glycogen, it also excretes water.

This is because the hexahydrate part (which is six water molecules attached to each magnesium chloride group) attracts more water to itself.

Protein molecules will also attract more water to the already swollen area.

Water is attracted to the blood protein so the water molecules in the blood follow the blood protein and surround the cells to the interstitial space preventing oxygen from getting to the cWater is attracted to the blood protein so the water molecules in the blood follow the blood protein and surround the cells to the interstitial space preventing oxygen from getting to the cwater molecules in the blood follow the blood protein and surround the cells to the interstitial space preventing oxygen from getting to the cells.

The molecules that come together to form gluconolactone are naturally attracted to water so they assist in drawing moisture to the skin, thereby boosting hydration.

Micelle molecules are suspended in a soft water solution and as you glide a cotton ball or pad soaked in the solution across your skin, the molecules attract, trap, and lift away any excess oils, dirt, and other impurities from the skin's surface.

Formulated with micelle molecules to attract and lock in impurities like dirt and makeup from the skin, this micellar water can leave your skin looking and feeling clean and soft.

Micellar water is made up of micelles, balls of cleaning oil molecules, suspended in soft water, «The idea is that micelles are attracted to dirt and oil, so they are able to draw out impurities without drying out the skin,».

The molecules inside the water are meant to attract dirt and makeup while leaving all the moisture in your skin.

The charged portion is attracted to water molecules.