Sentences with phrase «into oxygen gas»

At the photoanode side, water molecules are split into oxygen gas (O2), electrons and hydrogen protons through oxidation in the presence of sunlight and the thin film coating the team recently developed.

Instead, water is divided into oxygen gas, positive hydrogen ions, and electrons that are transferred into another circuit.

Not exact matches

There's a cathode and an anode; at the anode, water is split into protons and oxygen gas, and at the cathode, CO2 is electrochemically reduced to other value - added chemicals, such as carbon monoxide, methane, ethylene.

When Kanzius placed salt water in the path of the waves, however, the water broke apart into oxygen and hydrogen, a flammable gas.

Nocera had been working on a «bionic leaf» in which solar panels provide the energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases.

Kanzius had essentially replicated the centuries - old method of water electrolysis, separating water into hydrogen and oxygen gases by running a current through water loaded with salt, which makes it conductive.

BUGGING OUT Not only can this insectlike robot fly and swim, but it also splits water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which the bot ignites to propel itself from the water.

Typically, oxygen breaks down methane rapidly, and it also seeps into rocks (like carbon dioxide), so for both gases to endure in an atmosphere, something — likely biological — must keep putting them there.

«For example, we can put this molecular sheet into a package of food filled with an inert gas to check whether oxygen, which promotes the spoilage of food, has entered the package.

They become caught in powerful magnetic fields and are channeled into the upper atmosphere, where their interactions with gas particles, such as oxygen or nitrogen, set off spectacular bursts of light.

The separation into two chambers means there are two separate flue gas streams to deal with too: air with a reduced concentration of oxygen is discharged from one chamber, water vapour and CO2 from the other.

Eventually, they crash into the first wisps of the atmosphere, molecules of nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases 100 to 300 kilometers high.

Supernovas are extremely important for cosmic ecology because they inject huge amounts of energy into the interstellar gas, and are responsible for dispersing elements such as iron, calcium and oxygen into space where they may be incorporated into future generations of stars and planets.

Many of us are familiar with electrolytic splitting of water from their school days: if you hold two electrodes into an aqueous electrolyte and apply a sufficient voltage, gas bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen are formed.

For instance, catalytic gas converters use platinum - based metals to transform harmful emissions such as carbon monoxide into nontoxic gases by adding oxygen.

When carbon dioxide is fed into the cell, electricity splits it into oxygen and solid carbon or carbon monoxide gas that could then be used to manufacture many different products and fuels.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

In the years since, he has parlayed his Russian connections into a thriving operation that buys technologies such as metal - cutting gas blowtorches and oxygen generators originally designed for the Russian space station Mir.

Scientists have converted a gentle flow of gas directly into an electric current by flowing common gases like oxygen, nitrogen, or argon over a special kind of semiconductor.

In one scenario, interstellar clouds contain tricky - to - see oxygen gas, which got caught up as the cloud collapsed into a disc, then flash - froze and stuck to tiny grains of ice.

For instance, when particles from uranium bump into water, they can create hydrogen gas, hydrogen peroxide, and oxygen.

The investigators designed and built two prototype systems: in one the NO generator is a separate «offline» system continually generating gas that is delivered into a ventilation system via tubing; the second «inline» system is incorporated into the ventilation system in a way that synchronizes the generation of NO during inhalation with the pulsed delivery of oxygen and other gases to be inhaled, reducing the NO that would be lost during exhalation.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

Instead, the coal reacts with the oxygen and immediately starts to break down into its component gases, mostly hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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.

The well - known anammox bacteria convert ammonia and nitrite into dinitrogen gas, without using oxygen.

The team has now overcome this problem by developing a new catalyst for the first reaction — the one that splits water into protons and oxygen gas.

With too much UV light, no water could persist on the surface because its molecules would break down into hydrogen and oxygen gas and escape through the atmosphere.

The researchers inserted tiny gas sensors into the tracheae of the pupae and monitored the relative amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide during normal breathing cycles.

Gas sensors inserted into the spiracles of this moth pupae allowed scientists to measure its oxygen intake.

The oxygen would have «burned up» the carbon to produce gases such as carbon dioxide and monoxide, which would have moved into the outer disk along with water vapor before chilling into ices, so that any solid carbon in the inner solar system would have been destroyed within a few years.

With little oxygen available to convert that hydrogen into water, hydrogen gas probably accumulated in the atmosphere and oceans in concentrations as high as hundreds to thousands of parts per million.

A process of solid oxide electrolysis splits the air into oxygen and waste carbon monoxide gas, which can be dumped back into the atmosphere.

Eventually, Stars Aa and Ab will lose much of their current mass, from intensified stellar winds that eventually puff out their outer gas envelopes of hydrogen and helium (and lesser amounts of higher elements such as carbon and oxygen) into interstellar space as planetary nebulae.

Although atmospheric oxygen soon recovered again as photosynthesis and weathering reached a new balance, at about 10 per cent of present - day levels, the oxidative weathering of sulphides on land filled the oceans with sulphate which created abundant food for a group of bacteria that filled the oceans with sewer gas (hydrogen sulphide) toxic to oxygen - loving lifeforms (delaying the development of eukaryotic plants and animals) and turned them «into stinking, stagnant waters almost entirely devoid of oxygen.»

The finding suggests that microbes with the ability to produce oxygen were prolific at least locally around 3.46 billion years ago, releasing large quantities of this reactive molecular gas into the oceans and eventually the atmosphere by the end of this period (more).

Membrane: acts as a barrier, separating the oxygen and hydrogen gases to allow hydrogen fuel to be collected and pushed into a pipeline.

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.

Presumably, the strong stellar wind emitted by giant stars eventually blows the titanium oxide out of the star's outer regions (along with hydrogen and helium gases and dust made of elements and molecules like carbon) into interstellar space, until vigorous convection brings out more titanium and oxygen that are created from nuclear processes deeper in the star.

Oxygen, the third-most abundant chemical element in the Universe, is created inside stars and released into interstellar gas when stars die.

«Measuring the oxygen content of galaxies over cosmic time is one of the key methods we have for understanding how galaxies grow, as well as how they spew out gas into the intergalactic medium,» she said.

When Jean - Pierre Sauvage started his own research lab, he focused on developing copper catalysts that could absorb light and use that energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases.

He suggests that the flakes could also be added as a filler into plastic drinks bottles — where their added strength reduces the amount of plastic needed, and their ability to block the passage of gas molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide maintains the drink's shelf life.

Oxygen based cleansers use ozonated magnesium oxidesto to eliminate the toxic mass into a liquid or gas form.

This problem can actually affect the gas mileage as you will be sucking in oxygen at the leaks which confuses the O2 sensors into telling the computer to dump more fuel (it reads a false lean condition).

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 equilibrium.

This linear oxygen sensor control goes into operation immediately after the engine starts from cold, providing information about the exhaust gas constituents which the electronic control unit of the V6 uses for a controlled warm - up.

This tube will prevent your pet from aspirating fluid into his / her lungs while simultaneously delivering anesthetic gas and oxygen.

When we place your dog or cat safely under general anesthesia, a breathing tube is inserted into the trachea (windpipe) to administer oxygen mixed with the anesthetic gas.

In order to receive and maintain anesthesia, all patients must have a tube inserted into the trachea (the airway from the mouth to the lungs) so your pet can breathe in 100 % oxygen as well as gas anesthesia throughout the procedure.