Sentences with phrase «speed of all chemical reactions»

Flickers of laser light can clock the speed of a chemical reaction, timing the knitting and breaking of each molecular bond.

This gland is responsible for regulating the speed of all chemical reactions that occur in your pet's body.

Not exact matches

Enzymes are special types of proteins that speed up chemical reactions, such as the digestion of food in your stomach.

Scientists have created a molecule that mimics the look and behavior of a natural enzyme, a workhorse protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living things.

We can now enter this high - speed world to interrupt the chemical reactions that sustain some of our deadliest pathogens and cause disease.

A material that facilitates (increases the speed and likelihood of) a chemical reaction.

The new technique is able to not only identify the products of these chemical reactions, but also detect the flight paths and speed of all the molecules that come flying off the SAM.

Copper is a catalyst — a material used to activate and speed up chemical reactions — and, while it aids in the production of ethanol when exposed to CO2 and water, it is not efficient enough to make large quantities of ethanol.

University of Utah chemists discovered how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to predict chemical reactions and thus design better catalysts to speed reactions that make medicines, industrial products and new materials.

PHOTO - CATALYZATION A process that uses light to speed up chemical reactions, such as the breakdown of pollutants

Each year, chemical producers spend billions of dollars on metal catalysts, materials that spur or speed up chemical reactions.

In their study, the team investigated the possibility of converting cellulose into hydrogen using sunlight and a simple catalyst — a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction without getting used up.

«We may be able to design materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy, or manipulate light for telecommunications applications, or design novel catalysts for speeding up a variety of chemical reactions,» Gang said.

«We know, however, that these kinds of small clusters of nanoparticles are especially effective as catalysts for chemical reactions we want: a many-fold increase in the reaction speed due only to particle arrangement has already been demonstrated,» says Rademann.

Making chemicals for industrial processes often requires scientists to use a catalyst — a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction, reducing the amount of energy it takes to make different products.

Fulhame was the first scientist to demonstrate the power of a catalyst — a material that can speed up a chemical reaction without being consumed by it.

A gene in your DNA codes for an enzyme (type of protein that speeds up a chemical reaction) that allows you to break down a specific amino acid called phenylalanine found in milk.

They usually function as co-enzymes, which means they help speed up some of the body's chemical reactions.

A compound needed for the proper functioning of an enzyme, a protein that speeds up the rate at which chemical reactions take place in the body.

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Important component of enzymes (proteins that speed up the velocity of a chemical reaction in a living being)