Sentences with phrase «oxygen and hydrogen bonds»

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Cats give birth to kittens, not woodchucks, oxygen bonds with hydrogen to make water and not alcohol.

Previously, researchers assumed that positively charged hydrogen could only create hydrogen bonds with negatively charged elements like oxygen, fluorine and nitrogen.

Like water, it is held together by the powerful bonds between hydrogen and oxygen atoms, so ethanol can not travel through most petroleum pipelines.

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.

At altitudes above 50 kilometers, ultraviolet light from the sun easily penetrates the Red Planet's thin atmosphere and breaks down water's chemical bonds between hydrogen and oxygen.

They make good fuels because the energy stored in the bonds between carbon and hydrogen is abundant and easy to release in combustion with oxygen.

First, the chemists release the hydrogen from its bonds with carbon by mixing methane with oxygen, throwing in a catalyst, and turning up the heat.

«That's what his advance is pointing towards,» he says, «finding an alternative catalyst that will allow us to do oxygen evolution (breaking the bonds of water or H2O and forming oxygen) in concert with hydrogen» on a grand scale.

Atoms of most elements, such as hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, form tight chemical bonds by sharing electrons with their neighbours in order to give each atom a stable configuration of electrons.

Of the two types of atom, oxygen has more pull on the electrons that they share to form the bonds between them, so the oxygen becomes slightly negatively charged and the hydrogens slightly positive.

The researchers discovered that these catalysts — copper in the form of a white salt and the ligand as an oil — can oxidize C - H bonds in a very efficient way in combination with hydrogen peroxide, a reduced form of oxygen that nature uses.

For example, in water (H2O) the sole oxygen atom is bound to two hydrogen atoms, and the two bonds constantly change in length.

Typically, and logically, a positively charged hydrogen atom bonds to a negatively charged atom of oxygen, nitrogen or fluorine.

As the water boiled away, the hydrogen escaped into interstellar space while the oxygen came back down and bonded with carbon atoms.

This lack of oxygen enables them to maintain their hydrogen - carbon bonds, a necessary ingredient for the production of oil and gas.

Meyer, based at Grove City in Ohio, says that these electrically polarised conditions strain and break the covalent chemical bond between hydrogen and oxygen, liberating the two gases.

He knew he needed to find metals that were deft at breaking the carbon - hydrogen bonds that are at the heart of methane, ethane, and propane, short hydrocarbons known as alkanes, and then add in oxygen atoms that would transform the alkanes into alcohols.

Water, for example, with one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms, can form two hydrogen bonds per molecule.

Inside the AlloSphere, researchers such as Van de Walle use a joystick to maneuver through three - dimensional constellations of the oxygen, hydrogen and zinc atoms (linked by a complex lattice of chemical bonds) that make up these conductors.

Aspirin, for example, contains just 21 atoms (nine carbons, eight hydrogens and four oxygens) bonded together to form a particular shape.

The polymer and the agent form hydrogen bonds, weak electrostatic connections between polymer's hydrogen and an agent's oxygen atom.

For hydrogen in Earth's early history to have arrived and stayed put in great enough amounts to bond with the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, it must have been attached to a «carrier» — another atom that bound it into a molecule.

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, bonded together into a molecule.

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

Hydrogen peroxide is water with an extra oxygen molecule bonded that reacts with bacteria, viruses and toxins.

But when their temperature is lowered and they form a water molecule, the symmetry of the individual atoms is broken as they form a molecule with 105 degrees between the hydrogen - oxygen bonds.

The artificial leaf is essentially a silicon solar cell that has different catalytic materials bonded to each side that allow it to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, the latter of which could be stored and used as clean fuel.