Sentences with phrase «hydroxide radicals»

They think that when sunlight falls on the nanotubes it is able to split water molecules into two compounds, hydroxide radicals and hydrogen ions.

If we start out with a balanced system which contains frozen water at the poles, the mid to high latitudes begin to thaw, triggering soil greenhouse gas feedbacks (permafrost thaw and following oxic and anoxic sources add to the greenhouse gas budget), a chronic linear process (which helps to accelerate changes of the equilibrium state, reduces the ability of the atmosphere to break down greenhouse gases — less hydroxide radicals).

This combination of negative and positive creates a very strong oxidizer called the hydroxide radical.