Sentences with phrase «surrounding water molecules»

The nanoclusters then pass electrons liberated by the sun's energy into an iron - sulfur complex which acts like a match - maker between the negatively charged electron and a hydrogen proton in the surrounding water molecules.

But that's all to do with the conduction of heat — steam does not increase in temperature as it condenses, as you alluded — the latent heat merely slows down the condensation of the surrounding water molecules.

New observations with the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope have deepened the mystery surrounding water molecules in a galaxy 65 million light - years away.

The latter approach involves mixing water with nanoparticles that heat up quickly when exposed to sunlight, vaporizing the surrounding water molecules as steam.

The amalgamation of these techniques provided a fully characterized structure, one in which the dissolved carbon dioxide acts as a hydrophobe, having formed only very weak hydrogen bonds to the surrounding water molecules.

This effect occurs not only in the immediate vicinity of the protein, but can also be detected in the remote layers of the surrounding water molecules.

Surrounding water molecules are red and white.

Not exact matches

Molecules such as proteins are surrounded by water that helps them maintain their structures, but electron microscopy dried up the water.

The perturbation spreads over millions of surrounding molecules, causing water molecules to align preferentially in a specific direction.

We see this in hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions that propel lipid molecules in water to corral together to form the two - layer membranes that serve as the coatings surrounding cells.

They found that giant capsules formed from mixtures of lipids (i.e., soap - like fat molecules that make up the capsule membrane) responded to a sudden drop in the amount of sugar in the surrounding water.

«A microwave oven cooks food because the water molecules inside it absorb the microwave radiation and thereby heat up and heat the surrounding food.

New experimental technologies, such as terahertz absorption spectroscopy, pave the way for studies of the dynamics of water molecules surrounding biomolecules.

Hydration is essential for biomolecules to function, and neutrons are excellent at distinguishing between the motions of hydration water molecules and the biomolecule they are surrounding.

Heat causes water molecules to spread apart, making them much less dense than the surrounding water.

Typically, six water molecules surround a single methane molecule, and many of those cages linked together form a crystal.

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

The DNA present in a living system is surrounded by water and other types of molecules, so studying these processes in a more realistic environment is particularly desirable.

It was later understood that the irregular motion of the pollen particle is caused by the incessant buffeting of the water molecules surrounding the pollen particle.

Rather, the work of folding is done by much smaller water molecules, which surround proteins and push and pull at them to make them fold a certain way in fractions of a second, like scores of tiny origami artists folding a giant sheet of paper at blazingly fast speeds.

In the latter case, the effect of proteins on the surrounding water shell reaches out so far that water molecules begin to

Our work has shown that this simple picture works quantitatively in some cases with a homogeneous surface, for instance water molecules surrounding small sugar molecules, but breaks down in other cases, for instance hydration water around crowded proteins.

The five helix bundle protein known as λ * 6 - 85 is shown surrounded by 1000 water molecules in the dynamical hydration shell.

These spheres called micelles are molecules that roll up like roly - poly bugs based on the chemistry along their bodies — pointing outwards are the parts of their molecules that play well chemically with both the surrounding water and the calcite, while tucked inside are the parts that don't get along with the watery environment.

The newly - formed molecules are then transported by the flowing water and absorbed by the surrounding rock.

That means it attracts water molecules from the surrounding environment.

Aside from producing heat, far infrared may also increase mitochondria function by structuring the water molecules that surround the mitochondria.

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 cWater 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 cwater molecules in the blood follow the blood protein and surround the cells to the interstitial space preventing oxygen from getting to the cells.

They're powered by tiny micelle molecules in water that cluster together to surround and lift away impurities and makeup, no harsh rubbing or rinsing necessary!

The next showed water molecules entering a cell when surrounded by a hypertonic solution.

At the riverside, countless water molecules in motion and the din of the surrounding city.

2) Just like condensing water, the latent heat of freezing simply serves to slow down the freezing of the surrounding molecules — it does not increase the temperature of its surroundings — as you also alluded.

Although water vapour is a greenhouse gas it had no warming effect at the surface where the vapour simply acquired the same temperature as the surrounding air molecules.

This is an ice - like solid that consists of methane surrounded by water molecules in a lattice structure.

Early in the 19th century, scientists began to speculate that the Earth, surrounded by the frigid vacuum of space, was habitable because its atmosphere contained special molecules like CO ₂ and water vapor, molecules that can absorb heat rays emanating from the Earth and thereby trap its heat.

Hydrates can form with almost any gas and consist of a «cage» of water molecules surrounding the gas.