Sentences with phrase «other water molecules»

Because it has positive (hydrogen) and negative (oxygen) charges, it sticks or bonds to other water molecules.

When the surface was negatively charged, some water molecules became stuck to the surface, while other water molecules became disordered and moved away from the surface.

In liquid water each molecule is hydrogen bonded to approximately 3.4 other water molecules.

As water evaporates from the leaves and petals of the plant, it «sticks» to other water molecules and pulls that water into the space left behind.

Not exact matches

Measurements of the water vapor and of other molecules, such as carbon monoxide, suggest there is enough gas to feed the black hole until it grows to about six times its size.

For example, what must be the nature of physical existents such that the composite, the molecule of water, not only consists of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, but that they are at a particular distance from each other and in a particular three - dimensional pattern?

They are the principal component, other than water, of all living forms, but the nucleic acids alone have the remarkable property of being capable of duplicating their patterns, whatever they may be, from small molecules in their medium.

When a water molecule is more attracted to the plant, it is pulled towards the plant tissue, but as water molecules are highly attracted to each other the first molecule brings further water molecules with it.

Plants are not like us with pumping mechanism that pushes our blood around, so water moves up the vessel by adhesion (being attracted to the side of the vessel) and cohesion (water molecules being attracted to each other).

In this process, a semi-permeable membrane is used to remove molecules, ions and other larger particles from water.

The next goal of the researchers is to examine interactions between perovskites and other molecules, for example water molecules that are known to interfere with the performance of solar cells.

These contain surfactants, long stringy molecules that bind to water at one end and oily substances at the other.

The result is ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate, molecules that condense with others of their kind, plus water, to form tiny particles in the air that absorb sunlight and block visibility — smog.

Scientists, in collaboration with ICI Australia, experimented with hundreds of versions of the MAA molecule, knocking off water - soluble groups and adding others to enhance the ruggedness of the light - absorbing part of the molecule.

Q: Supernovas produce most of the heavy elements, but what about non-element molecules, like water and ammonia and many others we find naturally on Earth?

The probe will carry instruments to measure water, dust and other molecules in the planet's atmosphere, in an attempt to learn how Mars transitioned from wet and warm to dry and dusty.

The current splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and bacteria in the water transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into fuels or other useful chemicals.

BY AFFECTING the way molecules bind to each other, hydrogen bonds are responsible for water's high boiling point, ice's propensity to float and DNA's signature double helix.

And maps of slow - moving neutrons collected by NASA's Lunar Prospector, which orbited the moon in 1998 and 1999, suggested a number of craters are rich in hydrogen, though it was not clear whether the hydrogen was bound in water molecules or was present in some other form.

And by extension we regard our kind of matter — atoms, molecules, rocks, water, air, stars and all of the other things that interact with visible light — as the most important kind of matter in the universe.

«It is the presence of this highly ordered arrangement of water molecules, mixed with other disordered arrangements that gives water its peculiar properties.

The researchers performed diffusion tests with the graphene membranes, flowing a solution of water, salts, and other molecules across each membrane.

«When water freezes slowly, we can think of ice as being built from water molecules the way you build a brick wall, one brick on top of the other,» said Claudiu Stan, a research associate at the Stanford PULSE Institute at SLAC and partner in the project.

Thus, when we eliminate «enough water» through heating, that is when we reach the threshold for percolation, the saccharose molecules «see each other,» and form clusters, which organise themselves into a real network.

Others develop from certain trace vapours, for example when individual sulphuric acid and water molecules cluster as tiny droplets.

When the laser is switched off, the water returns to its high - density state, forcing the cell to «suck in» water and any other molecules, including drugs, from its surroundings.

«In a way, one must learn to see things from the molecules» point of view, considering forces such as random thermal motion that one would never consider when building an agricultural water pump or any other mechanical device.»

The trick is, as we mentioned earlier, the ability of water molecules to stick to each other and to other surfaces so strongly.

Furthermore, the researchers found that by altering the size of the ripples, and the type of molecules on the surface, they could achieve fast and controlled motion of molecules other than water..

The researchers found that, in an aqueous solution, amino acids usually hook up with others in their own string because of the randomness with which water - hating amino acid molecules are interspersed among water - loving ones on the same protein.

They found it was the apparently random positioning of water - loving (hydrophilic) molecules in a protein that prevents water - hating molecules (hydrophobic, which possess the dominant folding force), from binding with other proteins.

Second, water molecules can also cohere, or hold on to each other.

The water - hating molecules are prevented from combining with their counterparts on other strings by the action of water - loving molecules, which form little pockets of protection around neighboring water - hating molecules.

High - resolution x-rays of the antibodies showed that this theory made sense: The antibodies include sites that can bind oxygen molecules, others that can hold water molecules, and an amino acid where UV light can be absorbed.

«The other influence is methane, which breaks down into two water molecules and CO2 in the stratosphere,» explains climate scientist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

They encourage stale - smelling fragments to react with water and become less volatile, and they induce TMA to bond with water and other molecules so they never escape the fish's surface to assault your senses.

How can a tiny molecule like H2O2, which is hardly any larger than a water molecule (H2O), specifically oxidize particular proteins while leaving others completely unaffected?

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

Opposite charges attract, so water molecules tend to stick to each other as a positive hydrogen atom of one molecule attaches itself to the oxygen atom of its neighbour.

Although there are other techniques that allow researchers to concentrate molecules on a surface, those techniques mostly work with water as the medium.

You ping a single extra photon down towards Earth's surface, and on the way it hits a water molecule in the atmosphere, boosting its energy slightly and changing its future collisions with other molecules.

These molecules repel water at one end and attract it at the other, properties that cause them to self - assemble into spherical structures, which can encapsulate large payloads of biological molecules.

One end grabs an oil molecule, the other, a water molecule.

The sun's heat causes buried ices of water, carbon dioxide, and other molecules to burst forth in diffuse jets of gas and dust.

The rotelle - shaped molecule — known as a «pi - conjugated spoked - wheel macrocycle» — acts the opposite of polarizing sunglasses, which screen out glare reflected off water and other surfaces and allow only direct sunlight to enter the eyes.

Researchers «froze» light by allowing photons to interact with each other and lose energy, like water molecules losing heat and freezing.

Particles like silver iodide can provide a scaffold on which water molecules can align themselves into a crystalline structure or, in other words, freeze.

De Leeuw's team created computer models of dust grains made of olivine, a common mineral both in our solar system and in the dusty nebulae around other stars, and calculated what happened when water molecules attached themselves to the irregular surfaces of these fluffy grains.

The DNA present in a living system is surrounded by water and other types of molecules, so studying these processes in a more realistic environment is particularly desirable.

At the same time, haze alters the profiles of water signals and other important molecules in a distinctive way.