Sentences with phrase «negative electrical charge»

Negative electrical charges on their outer surfaces help to align them with the positive charges on one inner surface of the chamber.

It's known that lightning is caused by buildup of positive and negative electrical charges inside a cloud.

Bentonite clay is made up of a high number of tiny platelets, with negative electrical charges on their flat surfaces and positive charges on their edges.

In addition, the phosphate group carried a double negative electrical charge, further restricting its ability to move across the intestine's electrically neutral membrane.

Colloidal Silver - A fluid containing predominantly minute silver particles held in suspension, where the particles carry a slight negative electrical charge known as a zeta potential.

Biologist Daniel Robert and colleagues at the University of Bristol in England already knew that flowers usually carry a negative electrical charge, while bees tend to be positively charged.

An electrolyte is any substance containing atoms or molecules that have positive or negative electrical charges.

(Zwitterions are molecules that have areas of both positive and negative electrical charges, which cancel out to make them neutral overall.)

Its outer coating also has a negative electrical charge that repels the negatively charged immune cells.

Plasma is like a hot gas, but contains a vast but nearly equal number of free positive and negative electrical charges.

That gives them a negative electrical charge.

It is covered with many sugars and carries a negative electrical charge.

An ion is an atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons, giving the atom a net positive or negative electrical charge.

Due to its porous nature and negative electrical charge, activated charcoal can bind to a vast variety of drugs and toxins in the digestive tract, preventing them from absorbing into the bloodstream and safely escorting them out of the body.

This may be due to its ability to remain stable and carry a negative electrical charge, attracting positively charged free radicals.

Electrons have a negative electrical charge.

Once an atom has fewer electrons, with a negative electrical charge, than protons, with a positive electrical charge, this atom now has more positive electrical charge than negative electrical charge - we therefore say that this atom is, itself, positively charged.

For example, bentonite clay works by producing a negative electrical charge when it comes in contact with liquid.

In storms, ice and liquid water not only are key ingredients for separating the positive and negative electrical charges that initiate a lightning strike; they also are the main features detected by microwave sensors on satellites.