Sentences with phrase «loses oxygen ions»
In making the material, the researchers found the tantalum oxide gradually loses oxygen ions, changing from an oxygen - rich, nanoporous semiconductor at the top to oxygen - poor at the bottom.
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The gamma rays strip electrons from the molecules in the surrounding air, and the resulting free electrons lose energy and readily attach to oxygen molecules to create elevated levels of negatively charged oxygen ions around the radioactive materials.
The ions get out of the Earth's atmosphere because when sunlight or the occasional cosmic ray hits atoms of oxygen (or any other gas) at the edge of space, those atoms can lose an electron, becoming charged.
When that happens, the iron (Fe) loses electrons (becoming the Fe +3 ion) and oxygen picks them up.