Sentences with phrase «hydrogen atoms surrounding»

The word «saturated» here refers to the number of hydrogen atoms surrounding each carbon atom.

As our solar system slowly orbits around the galactic center, the sun's ultraviolet radiation carves out an egg - shaped region of ionized hydrogen atoms surrounded by neutral hydrogen gas.

Not exact matches

That is the force and timing needed, it is thought, to compress the plasma, fuse the hydrogen atoms and heat the surrounding liquid lead to even higher temperatures.

There are basically two types of lines, those produced by collisions between the atoms or ions and the electrons in the surrounding gas, which are called collision lines, and which are very bright for elements such as oxygen, nitrogen and neon, and lines which are produced when ions capture free electrons, which are called recombination lines, and which are bright only for those gases with the highest abundances in the interstellar medium: hydrogen and helium.

Instead, specially placed methyl groups — a carbon atom surrounded by three hydrogens — turn a gene on or off.

The diamond - like structural unit consists of six - sided rings of carbon atoms bonded together in chains surrounded by a halo of hydrogen atoms.

When surrounded by deuterium atoms (heavy hydrogen), that voltage gives the atoms an electric charge and then accelerates them into a nearby solid target containing additional deuterium.

The energetic radiation from these new stars strips electrons from the atoms within the surrounding hydrogen gas, ionising it and producing a characteristic red glow.

As the name suggests, polyethylenes are made of many copies of ethylene, a simple hydrocarbon building block with two carbon atoms surrounded by four hydrogens.

Isooctane, an additive in gasoline, has eight carbon atoms surrounded by 18 of hydrogen in a formation that looks a bit like the original starship Enterprise.

Their ultraviolet light reached free hydrogen gas in the surrounding regions, interacting with the atoms in a way that left a key signature in the radio spectrum from the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Methane consists of a single carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen ones, giving the gas its chemical assignation of CH4.

The Bohr model of the hydrogen atom: a dense nucleus containing the hydrogen atom's single proton (and possibly one or more neutrons), surrounded by an electron that can be on one of several different orbits.