Sentences with phrase «carbon dioxide and water molecules»

«Artificial photosynthesis uses a single integrated system to directly convert carbon dioxide and water molecules through sunlight into a transportation fuel in one system,» Frei said.

The carbon dioxide and water molecules combine with calcium carbonate to produce molecules called bicarbonates.

Not exact matches

The current splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and bacteria in the water transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into fuels or other useful chemicals.

Photosynthesis is a simple but powerful process: Sunlight helps transform carbon dioxide and water into chemical energy stored in the chemical bonds of sugar molecules.

The heat absorbed by water vapor and carbon dioxide is shared with all the nitrogen, oxygen and argon, because the latter molecules are always bumping into water vapor and carbon dioxide as they mix in the atmosphere.

The sun's heat causes buried ices of water, carbon dioxide, and other molecules to burst forth in diffuse jets of gas and dust.

The spacecraft's sensitive spectrometer was able to register the chemical signatures not only of water vapor but also of hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide — all precursors of the more complex molecules that scientists think eventually gave rise to life on Earth.

The carbon dioxide clustered at the tip of the crack constantly attacked the water molecules located there as well, making it easier for the fracture to widen and grow.

In the traditional view of photosynthesis, the energy carried by photons streaming from the sun is transferred by bouncing from one chlorophyll molecule to the next, a process that ultimately builds simple carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide.

In it, they use the energy from light to convert water and carbon dioxide into more complex and energetic molecules called hydrocarbons, thus storing the energy so that it can be recovered later by breaking down the molecules through a process called oxidation.

HD 189733 b was already known from space - borne observations to harbor several specific molecules in its atmosphere: water, methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

As these mitochondrial activities unfold, they generate carbon dioxide, water and heat, as well as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), an energy - carrying molecule that fuels cellular activities.

There, they react with molecules in the fuel, generating water, carbon dioxide, and electricity.

In this phenomenon, water molecules and oxygen in the atmosphere create strong oxidants which degrade organic compounds into water and carbon dioxide.

Cassini measured the composition of these jets, detecting raw materials for life including salt, water, carbon dioxide, methane, other organic molecules and, most recently, hydrogen, an ideal energy source for life.

In space, many other molecules would also be present, says Ligterink, such as water, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide.

Ancient organic matter trapped in rock might have been destroyed by water flowing through the rock, which would have split apart the organic molecules and produced carbon dioxide gas.

The reaction combines the hydroxyl molecule (OH, produced by reaction of oxygen and water) and carbon monoxide (CO, a byproduct of incomplete fossil fuel combustion) to form hydrogen (H) and carbon dioxide (CO2, a «greenhouse gas» contributing to global warming), as well as heat.

Looking through the data collected by the telescope, astronomers were able to detect a pattern of spikes for various life - supporting molecules: water, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, methanol, dimethyl ether, hydrogen cyanide, sulfur oxide and sulfur dioxide.

Also on tap: a new generation of telescopes, including NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which could find chemical fingerprints of oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and other molecules in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.

Exciting discoveries included condensate clouds, hazes, extremely efficient scatterers, molecules (water, methane, and carbon - dioxide), and atoms (sodium and potassium).

Once it sinks into the water, the carbon dioxide reacts with water molecules to form carbonic acid; the carbonic acid then releases hydrogen ions which in turn combine with carbonate ions (the ones that shellfish and other creatures need) removing them from the water.

Laboratory experiments also demonstrate that atomic addition reactions — similar to those assumed to occur in interstellar clouds — play a role in synthesizing complex molecules by subjecting ices containing simpler molecules such as water, carbon dioxide, and methanol to ionizing radiation dosages.

The simulations showed how water molecules floating around in the supercritical carbon dioxide self - organize in a film and dissolve part of the anorthite surface along the way.

Just to break down one molecule of glucose — a basic reaction necessary for life — into carbon dioxide and water takes six molecules of O2.

Its instruments can't capture microbes or detect life, but in a couple of dozen passes through the plumes of Enceladus, it has detected various molecules associated with life: water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, molecular nitrogen, propane, acetylene, formaldehyde and traces of ammonia.

«It's similar to a plant leaf that converts carbon dioxide and water with sunlight into sugar molecules and biomass, but it's a nonbiological engineered system.»

In an artificial photosynthetic system, the oxidation of water molecules into oxygen, electrons and protons (hydrogen ions) provides the electrons needed to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water.

The vision for solar fuels is a technology that uses sunlight to produce molecules such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methanol from water and carbon dioxide.

Here is the reason why: A gasoline (petrol) molecule is made up as such: C8H18 (or 8 Carbon atoms and 18 Hydrogen atoms) Energy is obtained from the combustion of it by the conversion of a hydrocarbon to carbon dioxide and water.

``... such vibrations are not readily excited in molecules such as oxygen and nitrogen, but can be in others — particularly water and carbon dioxide.

Reflected IR energy coming off the earth after solar energy has heated it would be absorbed and instantly, at the speed of light, dispersed by susceptible molecules like carbon dioxide and water vapor in a random three - dimensional manner, thus halving the energy re-radiated back towards the earth.

The concentrated solar thermochemical process provides the most promising technology for splitting water and carbon - dioxide molecules, scientists say, because of its direct conversion of high - temperature solar process heat into chemical energy.

The current splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and bacteria in the water transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into fuels or other useful chemicals.

If the radiation from one molecule of carbon dioxide in every 2,500 air molecules could actually slow the rate of cooling of Earth's surface, then the radiation from water vapour should slow the cooling at least a hundred fold, making rain forests about 50 degrees hotter than dry regions at similar latitudes and altitudes.

When petroleum is burned, some energy is required to separate the molecules into individual atoms, but much more energy is given back as the carbon and hydrogen atoms combine with oxygen to give carbon dioxide and water vapor.

As with petroleum, some energy is required to separate the molecule into separate atoms, but the energy is more than returned when the carbon and hydrogen burn to form carbon dioxide and water vapor respectively.

Molecules of greenhouse gases, especially water vapor and carbon dioxide, «recycle» some of the heat energy which would otherwise escape from Earth in the form of infrared radiation.

Carbon dioxide is fully part of the Water Cycle which cools the Earth in our real atmosphere, where we have gravity and therefore weight and volume and real molecules which have attraction, carbon dioxide and water vapour spontaneously join and become carbonic acid — all pure clean rain is carbonic Water Cycle which cools the Earth in our real atmosphere, where we have gravity and therefore weight and volume and real molecules which have attraction, carbon dioxide and water vapour spontaneously join and become carbonic acid — all pure clean rain is carbonic water vapour spontaneously join and become carbonic acid — all pure clean rain is carbonic acid.

At that two and one - half percent concentration in the lower troposphere works out to be 62 water vapor molecules for each carbon dioxide molecule.

In contrast, water vapor and carbon dioxide molecules consist of three atoms that are less constrained in their motion, so they absorb the heat radiation.

Although less common than carbon dioxide and water vapor, each molecule is far more powerful and potentially as significant for global warming.