Sentences with phrase «oxygen and hydrogen»

A material that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen at room temperature using relatively little electricity could be an important step toward affordable chemical storage of solar power.

Specifically, the researchers used graphene oxide, a form of the material made up of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

A chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen produces the electric power, and when the transportation fuel is pure hydrogen, the only resulting emission is water vapor.

Using photons to split water, it produces only oxygen and hydrogen, for use either as a fuel (waste product, water) or in a fuel cell.

Light comes in four photons, and then it hits the leaf, and it splits water into oxygen and hydrogen.

The team based its analysis on ratios of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores drilled in East Antarctica.

Observers spotted them with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, detecting the fluorescence of oxygen and hydrogen in the water molecules as they were bombarded by electrons whipped up by Jupiter's intense magnetic fields.

This aurora is driven by Jupiter's intense magnetic field, which causes particles to reach such high speeds that they can split the water molecules in the plume when they hit them, resulting in oxygen and hydrogen ions which leave their telltale imprint in the colours of the aurora.

Caltech's new solar fuel generation system, or artificial leaf, uses sunlight to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen gas.

Like Steig's, his research focuses on ancient atmospheric chemistry, including the study of carbon dioxide concentrations and reconstruction of the paleoclimate from measuring oxygen and hydrogen isotopes trapped in the ice.

This process could form the basis of a practical solar - energy storage system, Nocera says, in which electric current from a solar cell passes through water to the catalyst, breaking the water into oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis.

Part of this plan to merge Oxygen and Hydrogen OS is OnePlus» Community Builds, which are beta builds the company puts out for the community to use and give feedback on.

The combination of the water, salt, and the array are meant to generate negative ions by separating oxygen and hydrogen from the water, neutralizing charged particles in the body and drawing toxins with the opposite charges out.

The leaf is actually a silicon solar cell that, when put in water and exposed to light, then generates oxygen bubbles from one side and hydrogen bubbles from the other — essentially splitting oxygen and hydrogen.

With the discovery, the material that the researchers call «metal oxide - laser induced graphene» (MO - LIG) becomes a new candidate to replace expensive metals like platinum in catalytic fuel - cell applications in which oxygen and hydrogen are converted to water and electricity.

Where the numbers really pile up is in the operation of Kennedy Space Center, which includes pumping 300,000 gallons of water to protect the shuttle from launch vibrations, moving the rockets, and keeping hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen cool.

Better technologies for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel could power homes on a few liters of water a day.

Finally, the lack of oxygen inside containment greatly reduces the likelihood of forming a combustible mixture of oxygen and hydrogen during accident situations.

But explosives — and fertiliser — start their life as compounds made of nitrogen and elements such as oxygen and hydrogen, attached to each other by much weaker bonds.

Graphene oxide is graphene that is also covered with oxygen and hydrogen groups.

To transform alcohols — short hydrocarbons that harbor an extra oxygen and hydrogen atom — chemists must oxidize them by stripping off two or three hydrogen atoms.

Experimenting with a home chemistry kit, he ran electricity through an aqueous solution to generate oxygen and hydrogen.

Unfortunately, these optical techniques «see» only vibrating oxygen - hydrogen bonds (from stretching between oxygen and hydrogen bonds); they are blind to hydride species on ceria.

Complex organic molecules, consisting of carbon bonded with other elements like oxygen and hydrogen, are common in the Milky Way, but it was uncertain whether they would be produced in certain dwarf galaxies like the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud.

The lander would refuel on the space station, and would utilize liquid hydrogen fuel, which would come from water molecules broken into their composite oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

Natural photosynthesis uses light energy to split water into its constituent oxygen and hydrogen.

The research concentrated on water salinity, oxygen and hydrogen sulphide concentrations, and nutrients, with a focus on the forms of primary nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus that are directly useful to algae, i.e. nitrate and phosphate.

What happens when a person breathes chlorine is that the corrosive substance splits hydrogen from water in moist human tissue, releasing oxygen and hydrogen chloride, which do the damage.

They think this involves oxygen and hydrogen atoms formed during or after the etching process, which attach themselves to the internal surface of the porous structure.

Many, many investigators have contributed over the years to the development of a form of artificial photosynthesis in which sunlight - activated catalysts split water molecules to yield oxygen and hydrogen — the latter being a valuable chemical for a wide range of sustainable technologies.

Like in a fuel cell, the membrane is not only essential to collecting the hydrogen, but also to keep the highly reactive oxygen and hydrogen from recombining.

As you get dehydrated, as you fail to get oxygen and hydrogen in the form of water inside the cell, you lose the ability for those mitochondria to be cranking out all of that energy... used for cellular repair, replacement and the whole anti-aging effort.»

Boric acid contains Boron, Oxygen and Hydrogen while Borax (also known as sodium borate, or sodium tetraborate) contains two Sodium (Na) molecules which we really don't need as there is already too much sodium in our diet and sodium contributes to high blood pressure.

Soot - Particles formed during the quenching of gases at the outer edge of flames of organic vapors, consisting predominantly of carbon, with lesser amounts of oxygen and hydrogen present as carboxyl and phenolic groups and exhibiting an imperfect graphitic structure.

Air Liquide will also provide oxygen and hydrogen.

The crew behind OnePlus recently held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session over at Reddit, answering Redditors» litany of queries ranging from future phones they plan to release, updates to their proprietary custom UI called Oxygen and Hydrogen OS and a list of other things.

In ionic water both oxygen and hydrogen ions show liquid - like behavior.

The instrument was «composed of alternate tubs of oxygen and hydrogen through each of which passes platina foil so as to dip into separate vessels of water acidulated with sulphuric acid.»

They also used satellite precipitation data to «backsolve» the brine's origins using sodium concentrations, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, as the isotopic composition of water reflects the condensation temperature and precipitation rate over time.

That said, there are seductive small - scale options emerging, like the Fronius Energy Cell system in which any excess electricity from a PV cell used to decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen by electrolysis.

The rocket has two solid - fuel boosters and a main tank that carries 173 tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen.

The new device relies on a metallic blend of nickel and nickel oxide nanostructures, which help split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel.

Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.

«In the 3V schema, oxygen and hydrogen flow from the top to the bottom of the fuel cell stack (vertical gas flow) and the fuel cells are arranged vertically in the center tunnel (vertebral layout) for new, high - efficiency fuel cell packaging (volume efficiency).»

The Livermore team and collaborators at Rice University and San Diego State University turned to electricity to produce clean hydrogen fuel by splitting water molecules, which are made of oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

Although sucralose is made from sugar, its chemical structure is significantly different: A molecule of the artificial sweetener has three chlorine atoms, whereas sugar has three pairs of oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

The appearance of the plumes in this graphic is based on spectroscopic observations of oxygen and hydrogen in the auroral emissions.

The idea is to produce wind and solar power where it's cheap, use it to split water into oxygen and hydrogen, liquefy the hydrogen, and then — much as with today's liquefied - natural - gas trade — ship the hydrogen to markets that are short of energy, where the hydrogen could be turned, by devices called fuel cells, into electricity.