Sentences with phrase «onto water molecules»

For example, LeGrande says, as snow deposits onto a growing glacier, the temperature of the air imprints onto the water molecules.

They hold onto water molecules that keep cartilage flexible, and they stimulate the chondrocytes to remove debris and to form new cells.

Not exact matches

The trick to making this gummy soap into an oil - fighter, Caneba found, was to manipulate the compound so that one part of the molecule latches onto water while another part cozies up to crude.

These antifreeze molecules lock onto ice crystals, but not liquid water — though how they do this has been a mystery.

Essentially, they found that protons from a thin layer of water stretching across the surface of the catalyst detach from the water molecules and attach to oxygen molecules, briefly moving onto the surface of the catalyst to spur the reaction before returning to the water layer.

With the help of BYU chemical engineering professor Bill Pitt, Zhao was able to mathematically model the energy cost of the water molecules and fog droplets, showing that the shape and size of the nano - grooves lowered the energy cost to condense water and capture fog from the atmosphere onto the awn.

Before you have a crystal you need a seed, something for the water molecules to hold onto as they arrange themselves.

Simulations by Nora de Leeuw of University College London and colleagues suggest that the dust grains from which Earth formed had such a tenacious grip on water that they could have held onto the molecules despite the high temperatures.

Each wipe is soaked with micellar water, a clear liquid that looks like water, but is packed with micelle molecules that latch onto dirt, oil, and makeup without drying out your complexion.

But if somehow enough H20 gas molecules become a liquid droplet of water there some critical amount of molecules - as wild guess, say 1000 molecules formed as liquid water - in which H20 gas can more than just briefly condense onto such a droplet of water.