Sentences with phrase «short alkanes»

Split alkanes then react with each other, forming a soup of very short alkanes and medium - length alkanes.

Again, the first one stripped off hydrogens from adjacent carbon atoms in both the long polyethylene chains and short alkanes to form double bonds; the second split the molecules and randomly stitched split molecules back together.

The double bonds create a weak link in the short alkane chains — a vulnerability that the second catalyst exploits to split the alkane chain.

Not exact matches

To find out, they mixed polyethylene waste such as garbage bags with short liquid alkanes and then added in the two catalysts.

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.

The team engineered engineered platform E. coli strains that are capable of producing short - chain alkanes (SCAs; i.e., gasoline); free fatty acids... Read more →