Sentences with phrase «oxygen atom linked»

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Krissansen - Totton explains in more detail: «Having methane and carbon dioxide together is unusual, because carbon dioxide is carbon's most oxidized state, and methane (composed of a carbon atom linked to four hydrogen atoms rather than any oxygen at all) is its least,» he says.

Within these clouds, on the surfaces of tiny dust grains, hydrogen atoms link with oxygen to form water.

Today, most phosphorus enters the world's ecosystems as granite and other rocks weather over time, releasing the molecule orthophosphate: a phosphorus atom linked to a hydrogen and four oxygens.

The link between energy and water is not always apparent, but the two are as intertwined as the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a bottle of Evian.

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.

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS Organic compounds, any of a large class of chemical compounds in which one or more atoms of carbon are covalently linked to atoms of other elements, most commonly hydrogen, oxygen, or nitrogen.

But many molecules have more than two atoms — carbon dioxide, for instance, is triatomic, consisting of a carbon molecule linked to two oxygen molecules — one on each arm, as it were.