Sentences with phrase «charged calcium ions»

For example, when atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide increased in geologic times to a certain unknown threshold, it went into the ocean and combined with positively charged calcium ions to form calcium carbonate — limestone.

The team reasoned that this «negative loop» could fit neatly around positively charged calcium ions in water, attracting them to the surface of the bacteria and coaxing them to form CaCO3.

As temperature increases, these bonds break down and the double strands «unzip,» releasing the positively charged calcium ions.

The binding of positively charged calcium ions in its vicinity opens the channel and allows negatively charged chloride ions to permeate across the membrane.

In their laboratory, Jonathan Home, professor of experimental quantum optics and photonics, and his colleagues catch a single electrically charged calcium ion in a tiny cage made of electric fields.

Not exact matches

But the native language of biology is positive: its building blocks are protons and positively charged ions such as potassium, sodium and calcium.

Since neurons can be depolarized by calcium and other positively charged ions, such as those the TRPV1 channel controls, we hope that this system may be effective at regulating neural activity.»

Sodium citrate comes in and replaces the calcium ions with sodium ions, which are less positively charged (sodium: +1; calcium: +2).

Researchers have known for decades that some microorganisms, such as single - celled green algae, have proteins that respond to light by opening a channel in the microbe's membranes, allowing the passage of electrically charged ions (such as calcium and sodium).

TRPV4 is an ion channel, a gateway in the cell membrane that rapidly lets in positively charged ions such as calcium and sodium.

And positively charged macro-minerals, like calcium, potassium, sodium and magnesium, will react with the negative OH - ion, to form (alkaline) calcium, potassium and magnesium hydroxides.

With Gold bead Implants, the Gold beads are placed at acupuncture points around the affected joints and the positively charged Gold beads flood the joint continuously with positive ions thus neutralizing the negative ions and the acid also causing the body to dissolve the boney calcium deposits and reversing boney arthritis and alleviating pain.