Sentences with phrase «strips hydrogen atoms»

Next, a photoredox catalyst strips a hydrogen atom equivalent from the carbon, and the thiol engages in radical chemistry to transfer the deuterium or tritium in its place.

Not exact matches

Due to the high temperatures and intense radiation present, these atoms initially existed in an «ionized» state: The negatively charged electrons had been stripped from positively charged protons, leaving behind positive hydrogen ions (essentially, just protons).

If high - energy particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, happened to hit one of those hydrogen atoms, it became ionized, stripped of its electron.

The second - stage reaction strips off the fatty acids» carboxyl group (a carbon atom, two oxygen atoms, and a hydrogen atom) and breaks the remaining hydrocarbon chains into smaller fragments, yielding a light oil.

This region is made up of hydrogen plasma, a gas of atoms whose electrons have been stripped away by the ferocious temperature, leaving just protons behind.

Such views suggest that tiny galaxies in the early universe played a crucial role in cosmic reionization — when ultraviolet radiation stripped electrons from hydrogen atoms in the cosmos.

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 energetic radiation from these new stars strips electrons from the atoms within the surrounding hydrogen gas, ionising it and producing a characteristic red glow.

As the starshine intensified, it eventually stripped electrons from the hydrogens, ionizing the atoms.

The ionized hydrogen, with atoms violently stripped of their electrons, seems to fill the interior of the superbubble while the neutral hydrogen forms its walls and cap.

That blistering heat stripped light - emitting electrons from the hydrogen atoms in the plasma, eliminating light as a source of information about the atomic nuclei, or ions, in the plasma and creating the need for a new diagnostic tool.

Before this detector was built, astrophysicists would have said that cosmic rays are almost universally protons — that is, hydrogen atoms stripped of their electron so that they are bare, charged protons traveling across the universe.

Specifically, he has examined hydroxyl radicals, which are water molecules stripped of one hydrogen atom.