Sentences with phrase «causes water molecules»

Ionic foot baths operate by sending an electrical current through a tub of water, which causes the water molecules to divide and create negative oxygen ions.
Heat causes water molecules to spread apart, making them much less dense than the surrounding water.
«This movement causes the water molecules to form a hydration funnel of sorts, making up part of the molecular recognition mechanism in both partners,» explains Prof Dr Martina Havenith - Newen.
The perturbation spreads over millions of surrounding molecules, causing water molecules to align preferentially in a specific direction.
The microwaves cause water molecules to vibrate; the increased friction between the molecules results in heat.
In the 1950s and»60s researchers realized that they could reverse the process by applying pressure to the more concentrated solution, causing water molecules there to traverse the membrane, leaving behind a condensed brine.
The change may be because heating caused water molecules within the hollow tubes to become disordered, the authors suggest.
What Jimmy Dee is saying is that microwaves cause water molecules to vibrate.

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The theory developed that perhaps lightning struck a pond of water causing several molecules to combine in a random way which by chance resulted in a living cell.
Some of kuzu's complex starch molecules enter the intestines and relieve the discomfort caused by overacidity, bacterial infection, and, in the case of diarrhea, excess water.
Water molecules in the plants root system expand when they freeze causing permanent and fatal damage.
A competing theory has it that the laser pulses rapidly heat water molecules in the inner ear, causing tiny shockwaves that vibrate the hairs in the same way sound waves normally do.
However, repeated cycling caused «over-hydration'that trapped water molecules inside the thin film structure — a development that degrades electrochromic activity by generating irreversibly colored nickel oxide hydroxide grains.
When fast neutrons released by the splitting of atoms (that is, nuclear fission) pass through heavy water, interactions with the heavy water molecules cause those neutrons to slow down, or moderate.
Another drawback: The material must be in a vacuum in the microscope and that causes water within biological molecules to evaporate, distorting their shapes.
The probable release of water molecules from the hydration layer of ions caused by cluster formation may result in an increased number of degrees of freedom of the system.
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.
Because the energy of hydrating, or adding a water molecule, is very near to hydrolyzing or causing that water molecule to break apart.
The sun's heat causes buried ices of water, carbon dioxide, and other molecules to burst forth in diffuse jets of gas and dust.
UV radiation can break apart water molecules in the atmosphere and even cause hydrogen and oxygen atoms to be lost to space, depleting a planet of water.
The branching involves the way in which water molecules in the air move toward the crystal; and the symmetry involves their final attachment to the crystal surface, causing the crystal to grow.
It was later understood that the irregular motion of the pollen particle is caused by the incessant buffeting of the water molecules surrounding the pollen particle.
This aurora is driven by Jupiter's intense magnetic field, which causes particles to reach such high speeds that they can split the water molecules in the plume when they hit them, resulting in oxygen and hydrogen ions which leave their telltale imprint in the colours of the aurora.
Artificial eyes deep below the surface of the lake look for dim flashes of blue light caused by a rare collision between a neutrino and a molecule of water.
These enter the clay tube, causing the water there to evaporate and a luminous plasma ball — consisting of ionised water molecules — to rise from the surface.
In collaboration with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johnson & Johnson, the TUM team showed that if mucins lose these sugar molecules, they can no longer bind a sufficient amount of water, which causes them to lose their lubricative potential.
As water freezes its molecules rearrange themselves, and high pressure causes the molecules to rearrange in different ways than they normally would.
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The aeronomic goal is to study certain molecules that are found in Earth's atmosphere — such as water, chlorine compounds and ozone — which can help us better understand the processes that cause thinning of the ozone layer.
The team saw in exquisite detail how the atoms at the hematite surface and water molecules nearby responded to far - from - equilibrium conditions caused by electrically charging the interface.
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.
Coconut oil is said to break down in a way similar to carbohydrates, and as such forms ketones — water - soluble molecules produced in the liver and said to cause a metabolic state where fat burning speeds up.
Hi Miriam, I think your weight gain is mostly caused by water retention (one molecule of glucose binds 4 molecules of water, more glucose in your body = more water).
Excessive sugar (as with lactose intolerance - a milk sugar) or salt intake can cause osmotic diarrhea as can the use of too much water - soluble molecules, like magnesium or vitamin C, that result in increased fluid retention in the bowel.
Lots of the energy is absorbed in a layer 1 - 10 micrometers in thickness — 1000 - 10000 molecules thick — at the very surface, where it causes the water to evaporate rather than heating the bulk.
Sound travels in air like waves in the fluid liquid water of the ocean, the sound will cause a molecule to vibrate more energetically where it is, it then causes its neighbour to vibrate more energetically and itself will go back to ground state, like a mexican wave the energy of the sound is passed along through the volume of air.
During periods of low sunspots more cosmic rays hit the earth which causes more water molecules to form in the atmosphere, meaning more moisture (or clouds) in the sky.
Pekka, at the moment the water cycle appears to consist of sensible heat causing the liquid to gas phase transition, water molecules rising, water condensing and releasing the latent heat as molecular collisions.
In effect the evaporation sucks energy from the oceans against the thermal gradient within the ocean bulk and despite the warming of the topmost molecules caused by infra red radiation and then expels it to the air in the form of latent heat carried by water vapour.
[The Global Conveyer Belt has suddenly stopped for several speculated reason in the past and caused dramatic and rapid climate changes always to the cold side; therefore, warm is preferable to cold any day] http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/ocean-earth-system/ocean-water-cycle/ «As water temperature increases, the increased mobility of gas molecules make them escape from the water, thereby reducing the amount of gas dissolved.
Gas molecules also obtain heat from ground based thermals and latent heat induced collisions caused by water vapor originating from oceans / seas / lakes / rivers, not just by radiative transfer, and which type of molecule stores the most heat is critical!
When the air's carbon dioxide levels rise --- to 400, 600 or 800 ppm — the stomata shrink in size, causing them to lose less water from transpiration, while still absorbing ample CO2 molecules.
It isn't accomplished by microwave photons per se but rather by phase variation which causes dialectric molecules (primarily water in this case) to constantly re-orient with the magnetic phase.
Why don't photons get absorbed by all the other water vapor molecules to cause warming?
A radiated IR photon is going to be absorbed directly, and not wait around for man to release CO2 to cause warming to cause more water vapor molecules!
This is supposed to be water proof... that's exactly what caused me to break my head over how an indirect contact with few molecules of water had damaged it..
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