Sentences with phrase «oxygen molecules before»

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Before gene therapy he needed monthly blood transfusions to provide him with beta - globin, a key component of the haemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen around the body.

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.

The answer is that before the sunlight reaches Earth, it first has to travel through our atmosphere, which is a layer of gas made up of tiny molecules of mostly nitrogen and oxygen that surrounds our planet.

Currently, the fluorescent molecules last about 45 seconds before reacting with oxygen and «burning out,» and they emit a few shades of red rather than a single pure color.

«In this new study we report data from the S3 (2 - flash) and S0 (3 - flash) states, which are the intermediate states directly before and after the evolution of the oxygen molecule.

The prevailing theory is that this reduces damage to mitochondria occurring as a result of the reactive oxygen species generated within these organelles, with localized antioxidants soaking up reactive molecules before they can cause harm.

Because the molecules in a gas are constantly moving about and colliding with each other, it is very likely that some nearby nitrogen or oxygen molecule will collide with our excited infrared - active gas molecule before it has a chance to emit its light.

Nitrogen has 1950 of these 2500 and oxygen has 525 of them so water molecule emitted photons would travel even further before capture by another H2O molecule.