When the scientists tracked the pattern of emissions of
a particular hydrogen molecule consisting of three hydrogen atoms (rather than the usual two), they expected to see a uniform planet - wide infrared glow.
Not exact matches
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?
How could we tell that
hydrogen had a
particular atomic weight and that its
molecules were arranged in a certain fashion, when we couldn't see them?
Dr Russo said: «With this procedure, we have found that what makes water behave anomalously is the presence of a
particular arrangement of the water's
molecules, such as the tetrahedral arrangement, where a water
molecule is
hydrogen - bonded to four
molecules located on the vertices of a tetrahedron.
In
particular, a charged
molecule called hydronium, which has three
hydrogen atoms and one oxygen ion, can transform into water (plus an independent
hydrogen atom) if it captures a free - floating electron.