Sentences with phrase «surrounding oxygen molecules»

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The gamma rays strip electrons from the molecules in the surrounding air, and the resulting free electrons lose energy and readily attach to oxygen molecules to create elevated levels of negatively charged oxygen ions around the radioactive materials.

The protons enter the surrounding solution of water and methanol, while the electrons flow through the palladium itself into oxygen molecules.

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.

Water is attracted to the blood protein so the water molecules in the blood follow the blood protein and surround the cells to the interstitial space preventing oxygen from getting to the cells.