Sentences with phrase «water molecules from»

When the air is saturated with water vapor, loss of water molecules from the ocean to the air is exactly balanced by the gain from the air to the water.

And, conversely, is there a constant rain of water molecules from small comets entering the atmosphere?

That means it attracts water molecules from the surrounding environment.

For example, they found that the oxide surface influences the water molecules from relatively far away, which means a few molecular lengths in this case.

Their muscular feet produce adhesive filaments called byssal threads whose tips, called adhesive plaques, contain special adhesive proteins that remove water molecules from the target surface to enable the plaques to bind to it.

This uniformity of thickness on different particle sizes in a particular batch is determined to be due to the difficulty of removing residual water molecules from the powder during the purging cycle of the atomic layer deposition (ALD) process.

Hydrogen, which is released when water molecules from a reactor's coolant break apart, can enter the metal and react with it.

This hydrophobic coating expels water molecules from the vicinity of the electrode surface and then, upon charging for the first time, decomposes and forms a stable interphase — a thin mixture of breakdown products that separates the solid anode from the liquid electrolyte.

The probable release of water molecules from the hydration layer of ions caused by cluster formation may result in an increased number of degrees of freedom of the system.

The fullerene cages prevent water molecules from freezing, meaning that the hydrogen atoms continue to spin and conversion is still able to occur.

«In reality, the suction that exists within the water - conducting cells arises from the evaporation of water molecules from the leaves.

Vitrification uses cryoprotectants, which are chemicals that prevent water molecules from turning into ice crystals, protecting the integrity of the genetic material.

In the first design, the phosphonate groups were so strongly bound to the metal that they were preventing the water molecule from binding to the catalyst early enough to keep the process running smoothly.

Not exact matches

He would argue that Leclerc's notion of «physical existence» applies not only to our more typical notion of a molecule of water, or of sugar, or of hemoglobin (all of similar type), but also to examples of crystals, which are markedly different, and to systems of chemical reaction which persist far from equilibrium.

To get from there to the simplest cell all you need is the combination of a 15 - 17C oil molecule and an amino acid, in water they spontaneously form a sphere since the oil part is hyrophobic and the amino acid is hydrophyllic.

For example, what must be the nature of physical existents such that the composite, the molecule of water, not only consists of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, but that they are at a particular distance from each other and in a particular three - dimensional pattern?

They are the principal component, other than water, of all living forms, but the nucleic acids alone have the remarkable property of being capable of duplicating their patterns, whatever they may be, from small molecules in their medium.

A surfactant is the scientific name for an emulsifier, a.k.a. something that binds water and oil molecules together and keeps them from separating like an cheap vinaigrette.

Nanotech compounds released from the bag film into the atmosphere react with excess water molecules released by the product.

Water molecules move from areas of low surface tension to high surface tension and so the sticks moved.

In this process, a semi-permeable membrane is used to remove molecules, ions and other larger particles from water.

As water evaporates from the leaves and petals of the plant, it «sticks» to other water molecules and pulls that water into the space left behind.

The recent discovery of hydrogen - bearing molecules, possibly including water, on the moon has explorers excited because these deposits could be mined if they are sufficiently abundant, sparing the considerable expense of bringing water from Earth.

The probe will carry instruments to measure water, dust and other molecules in the planet's atmosphere, in an attempt to learn how Mars transitioned from wet and warm to dry and dusty.

Then, the drop recoils from the water - repellent molecules on the leaf's surface and snaps back, launching part of the drop into the air.

From there, the still - salty water is sucked through reverse - osmosis membranes permeable to water molecules but not salt ions.

The model system developed by researchers from the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science is made up of water and block copolymers — thread - like molecules with both a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic component.

For example, hydrophilic polymers are often used to protect metals from fouling; water molecules accumulate on this polymer layer, which protects the metal against the adhesion of unwanted molecules or organisms.

From an anthropic viewpoint, it is like the water molecule was fine - tuned to have such unique properties.

«When water freezes slowly, we can think of ice as being built from water molecules the way you build a brick wall, one brick on top of the other,» said Claudiu Stan, a research associate at the Stanford PULSE Institute at SLAC and partner in the project.

MOFs are used to detect, purify and store gases, and could help solve some of the world's most challenging energy, environmental and pharmaceutical challenges — they can even pull water molecules straight from the air to provide relief from drought.

Hydrogen can be made with no upstream emissions using renewable energy to separate hydrogen from a water molecule in a process called electrolysis.

Once the nanoparticles are added and light applied, the water separates into hydrogen and oxygen almost immediately, producing twice as much hydrogen as oxygen, as expected from the 2:1 hydrogen to oxygen ratio in H2O water molecules, Bao said.

His trick: a hand - cranked device that generates electricity to zap water molecules, splitting them and joining them with chlorine atoms from salt.

To their surprise, the ice bubbled like boiling water at temperatures between -210 C / -346 F and -120 C / -184 F. Analysis of the gas showed it to be hydrogen molecules, which the researchers believe were formed from methanol and ammonia broken up by UV irradiation.

[The entropy of a glass of water comes from the many possible equivalent arrangements of the molecules within.]

Others develop from certain trace vapours, for example when individual sulphuric acid and water molecules cluster as tiny droplets.

In the icy bodies around our solar system, radiation emitted from rocky cores could break up water molecules and support hydrogen - eating microbes.

When the laser is switched off, the water returns to its high - density state, forcing the cell to «suck in» water and any other molecules, including drugs, from its surroundings.

«In a way, one must learn to see things from the molecules» point of view, considering forces such as random thermal motion that one would never consider when building an agricultural water pump or any other mechanical device.»

As one water molecule evaporates through a pore in a leaf, it exerts a small pull on adjacent water molecules, reducing the pressure in the water - conducting cells of the leaf and drawing water from adjacent cells.

They found it was the apparently random positioning of water - loving (hydrophilic) molecules in a protein that prevents water - hating molecules (hydrophobic, which possess the dominant folding force), from binding with other proteins.

This chain of water molecules extends all the way from the leaves down to the roots and even extends out from the roots into the soil.

The water - hating molecules are prevented from combining with their counterparts on other strings by the action of water - loving molecules, which form little pockets of protection around neighboring water - hating molecules.

When more aerosols are added to the air, like from ship exhaust, water molecules have more particles to collect around.

IN THE CLOUDS Many of the water droplets that make up clouds get a size boost from carbon - containing molecules that assemble on the droplets» exterior, new research suggests.

Water molecules originating from different places in the solar system have different amounts of deuterium.

Normally, plants adapt to drought - related stress by producing osmoprotectants — molecules like soluble sugars that help prevent water from leaving cells.

By modeling the reaction, they concluded that the initial energy burst could come from ultraviolet (UV) light, which produces energetic oxygen called singlet oxygen when it breaks up water molecules.

Carbon dioxide from the air will be converted into methane and water, and the water molecules will then be electrically cleaved to release oxygen.