Splitting water into
its constituent hydrogen and oxygen elements is an important starting point for the development of clean renewable fuels.
Currently, electrolyzers (machines that split water into
its constituent hydrogen and oxygen) need a catalyst, namely platinum, to run; ditto fuel cells to recombine that hydrogen with oxygen, which produces electricity.
One of the simplest ways of obtaining hydrogen is electrolysis: an electric current splits water molecules into
their constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
Chemist Daniel Nocera, head of the M.I.T.'s Solar Revolution Project, focused on one side of the equation: splitting water into
its constituent hydrogen and oxygen molecules.
Not exact matches
For example, a liver
and a muscle are made up of the same material
constituents -
hydrogen, carbon,
oxygen,
and so on - acting on each other by the same basic forces.
«Splitting water usually requires two different catalysts, but our catalyst can drive both of the reactions required to separate water into its two
constituents,
oxygen and hydrogen,» says study leader Associate Professor Chuan Zhao.
Natural photosynthesis uses light energy to split water into its
constituent oxygen and hydrogen.
When sunlight hits the electrode, it generates an electric current that splits the water into its
constituent parts,
hydrogen and oxygen.
What's more, the stellar core is almost entirely carbon
and oxygen, with no trace of
hydrogen and helium — the main
constituents of stars.
And because the human body breaks down water's constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen to construct the proteins that make hair cells, those cells can preserve the record of a person's trave
And because the human body breaks down water's
constituent atoms of
hydrogen and oxygen to construct the proteins that make hair cells, those cells can preserve the record of a person's trave
and oxygen to construct the proteins that make hair cells, those cells can preserve the record of a person's travels.
Joe Reiss, vice president of marketing at manufacturer American Science
and Engineering (AS&E) in Billerica, Mass., says low - atomic - number elements such as carbon,
oxygen,
hydrogen and nitrogen — common
constituents of explosives — create a strong scattering effect visible in images that operators monitor on a screen yet discernible from the organic molecules in the human body.
Which splits water into
oxygen and the
constituents of
hydrogen, a proton
and electron.
The instruments measure atmospheric densities
and temperatures for both the electrically neutral (e.g., carbon dioxide, CO2, atomic
oxygen, O, atomic
hydrogen, H,
and other species)
and the electrically charged
constituents (that is, ions such as CO2 +
and O2 +,
and electrons).
Hydrogen gas is released when the battery is charging due to a process called electrolysis in which water decomposes into its constituent hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) in the presence of a voltage that is greater than the decomposition voltage equi
Hydrogen gas is released when the battery is charging due to a process called electrolysis in which water decomposes into its
constituent hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) in the presence of a voltage that is greater than the decomposition voltage equi
hydrogen (H)
and oxygen (O) in the presence of a voltage that is greater than the decomposition voltage equilibrium.
A key step in both natural
and artificial photosynthesis is the splitting of water into its
constituents,
hydrogen and oxygen.
«The Holy Grail of solar research is to use sunlight efficiently
and directly to «split» water into its elemental
constituents -
hydrogen and oxygen -
and then use the
hydrogen as a clean fuel,» said Gray.