Sentences with phrase «first water molecules»

The first water molecules preferred to attach themselves to the polar functional groups.

Not exact matches

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.

In a phenomenon called branching instability, water molecules diffuse through the air to reach the growing crystal, and reach the projecting corners first.

Using their innovative approach, Emsley's team found that the sequence of protein motions follows a specific hierarchy as temperature increases: first the protein's solvent molecules, then the protein's side - chains and water molecules, and finally the protein's backbone.

Saladino and Di Mauro's work suggested that the first, small RNA molecules were most likely to come together in a water - free environment — like a formamide - rich lagoon.

Not right away, because water molecules contain oxygen and oxygen had to be formed in the first stars.

This hydrophobic coating expels water molecules from the vicinity of the electrode surface and then, upon charging for the first time, decomposes and forms a stable interphase — a thin mixture of breakdown products that separates the solid anode from the liquid electrolyte.

First, the fungi accumulate sugars and other small molecules in their cells, which, in turn, brings in more water.

At first, the gas and dust cloud is extremely cold and simple molecules such as carbon monoxide and water settle on the grains of dust and solidify into ice.

Indiana University researchers have reported the first definitive evidence for a chemical bond between two negatively charged molecules of bisulfate, or HSO4, a new molecular structure with potential applications to the safe storage of nuclear waste and reduction of chemicals that contaminate water and trigger large fish kills.

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.

In the first design, the phosphonate groups were so strongly bound to the metal that they were preventing the water molecule from binding to the catalyst early enough to keep the process running smoothly.

That was the first time anyone was able to see water molecules in an EM structure.»

Whereas the first is explained by H - bond with the proteins, the retarded hydrogen bond dynamics around hydrophobic residues is at first glance surprising and can be explained by the additional imposed steric constraints on the water molecules at hydrophobic sites.

First, the water molecules around the hydroxide ion bounced around, positioning and creating hydrogen bonds with the hydroxide.

Using single water molecules as atomic markers, the team successfully identified the atomic species of this surface; result that was additionally confirmed by the comparison of simultaneous AFM and STM measurements with the outcomes of first - principles calculations.

Herzberg continued to add to his major scientific discoveries: he was the first to detect the hydrogen molecule in planetary atmospheres, the first to uncover the presence of water in comets, and the first to identify dozens of free radicals (including methylene CH2 and methyl CH3) in the laboratory and interstellar clouds.

Some of the electronic charge on the chloride ion (Cl --RRB- ends up on the water molecules in the first solvation shells around the chloride and sodium ions, with the waters around sodium being the most negative — the waters effectively act as an electronic sink.

They found that the reaction occurs without an energetic push, but the position of the water molecules as they come in to form first «puddles» of water that connect into a film as they grow bigger.

While theoreticians have predicted that such ices are formed by squeezing water molecules between two surfaces, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Ruhr - Universitat Bochum are the first to create it.

At first they used conditions in which no water was present (remember, they used water stand - ins), and the catalyst could create hydrogen gas at a rate of about 33,000 molecules per second.

A long - suspected secret behavior of water molecules in ice is seen for the first time using a new technique that could help develop energy alternatives.

The first half is done in an electrolyzer, which splits a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen, and the second half in a fuel cell, which puts them back together.

Increased DLR does NOT directly eject water molecules into the air, it must FIRST raise the temperature (average kinetic energy) of the skin layer.

The end result is there's virtually no heating beyond the first few micrometers and the molecules near the surface just keep picking up more and more energy as latent heat until they have enough energy to vaporize and then they leave the surface and quickly convect upwards because water vapor is lighter than air.

The water molecules are so denesly packed in liquid water that the first micrometer absorbs it all.