Sentences with phrase «generate oxygen and hydrogen»

Experimenting with a home chemistry kit, he ran electricity through an aqueous solution to generate oxygen and hydrogen.

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The palladium atoms initially snatch hydrogens from the alcohols but later give them up to oxygen atoms in the solvent, generating water and returning the catalyst to its original state.
Fuel cells generate electrical energy through a chemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen.
Unlike conventional water splitters, the Stanford device uses a single low - cost catalyst to generate hydrogen bubbles on one electrode and oxygen bubbles on the other.
And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].
At night the hydrogen and oxygen could be used by a fuel cell to generate electricity.
Powered by the electricity generated when hydrogen and oxygen combine to form H2O and with upholstery fabric made of fermented corn, the Clarity sure sounds green.
An alternative device, called an electrolyzer, uses solar - generated electricity to split water into clean hydrogen and oxygen, but the technique is very energy intensive and expensive.
The cloud consists of ionized gas, or plasma, and contains the elements hydrogen, helium, and oxygen, along with heavier elements that were generated during the blast itself.
When sunlight hits the electrode, it generates an electric current that splits the water into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen.
Platinum is also crucial to the reactions in fuel cells, which combine hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity.
The hydrogen passes through a membrane and combines with oxygen in the fuel cell, generating electricity and waste water.
Here you can crank a handle to generate electricity to electrolyse water into hydrogen and oxygen (and recombine them with a bang), operate a miniature chemical plant or a gas scrubber, measure the pH of various common substances, or discover your personal hot spots by lying against a large sheet of liquid crystals.
There, the fuel cell forces the hydrogen electrons through a circuit, generating current and powering the motor before the electrons rejoin the hydrogen protons and oxygen to form the car's only emission: water.
In this case, a solar panel slightly bigger than a playing card harnesses the sun's energy to generate an electric current that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process known as electrolysis.
The fuel cells combine hydrogen, water and oxygen to generate electricity.
The cell envelops the foreign body and exterminates it specifically by using reactive oxygen species (ozone, hydrogen peroxide, bleach), generated thanks to the enzyme NOX2.
Once there it will produce propellant on Mars itself, either by distilling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mixing it with hydrogen brought from Earth to generate methane and oxygen or by electrolyzing water from the permafrost to make liquid hydrogen and oxygen.
Although the Cambrian explosion generated a large number of new phyla of Earth - type life, it actually crashed in a mass extinction not long after it began when oxygen levels fell and hydrogen sulphide levels rose again so that biodiversity at the family, genus, and species levels was decreasing around 515 million years ago (Gill et al, 2011; and Michael Marshall, New Scientist, January 5, 2011).
The first unmanned vehicle to land would use surplus hydrogen to stimulate chemical processes with the Martian atmosphere to generate fuel and water and oxygen for the astronauts to access when they arrive next.
One of the most promising ideas for storing renewable energy is to use the excess electricity generated from renewables to split water into oxygen and hydrogen; the hydrogen can then be fed into fuel - cell vehicles.
It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.
The combination of the water, salt, and the array are meant to generate negative ions by separating oxygen and hydrogen from the water, neutralizing charged particles in the body and drawing toxins with the opposite charges out.
It represents a new generation of concept car with electric hybrid propulsion where electricity is generated from hydrogen and oxygen (air) in a Toyota designed fuel cell.
The fuel cell combines the hydrogen — which has to be pumped into the vehicle and stored in a tank — with oxygen from the outside air, and uses this to generate electricity to run the car's electric motor.
The Mirai is powered by a fuel cell which generates electricity from a chemical reaction between atmospheric Hydrogen and Oxygen.
As the most advanced expression of the electric vehicle concept, Honda's hydrogen fuel cell vehicle utilizes electricity generated by combining hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell stack, and electricity stored in its lithium - ion battery pack to power the vehicle's electric motor.
The vehicle generated power using only compressed bottled hydrogen and oxygen from the desert air.
The other three nominees announced today are Darren Almond, who displayed bus stops he saw outside the Auschwitz Museum in Poland in a gallery in Berlin; Glasgow - born Jim Lambie, who is known for his psychedelic floor pieces, and Simon Starling, who rode a moped across the desert in Andalucia which generated power using only compressed bottled hydrogen and oxygen from the desert air.
Fuel cell - A fuel cell generates electricity in a direct and continuous way from the controlled electrochemical reaction of hydrogen or another fuel and oxygen.
The best way to do this, in my opinion, is using a fuel cell — a device that can electrochemically convert natural gas into a useable fuel by stripping off the hydrogen portion of the methane molecule and combining it with oxygen to generate clean electricity and some waste heat.
Areas receiving modest cuts or level funding in the Energy Department's FY17 budget included solar and wind energy programs aimed at expanding renewable power and lowering costs for these clean energy technologies; work to advance hydrogen and fuel cellElectrochemical device in which electricity is generated by chemically reacting hydrogen with oxygen; electricity, water vapor, and heat are the only products.
Electrochemical device in which electricity is generated by chemically reacting hydrogen with oxygen; electricity, water vapor, and heat are the only products.
Although hydrogen generates about 62,000 Btu per pound, it accounts for only 5 percent or less of coal and not all of this is available for heat because part of the hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water vapor.
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