Sentences with phrase «water molecules work»

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For capillary action to work, the adhesion force between the water and plant tissues must be stronger than the cohesion between water molecules.
All detergents work in basically the same way: they contain molecules that enable them to be soluble in water and attract oil and dirt to them.
But MAA is a tricky molecule to work with because it's highly unstable in water.
MRIs work by tapping into an astonishing phenomenon: When placed in a powerful magnetic field, the hydrogen atoms in water molecules behave like small bar magnets.
The soap molecules also worked better than some conventional soaps in challenging conditions such as cold water and hard water.
MacDonnell also has worked on developing new photocatalysts for hydrogen generation, with the goal of creating an artificial photosynthetic system which uses solar energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
Although there are other techniques that allow researchers to concentrate molecules on a surface, those techniques mostly work with water as the medium.
Saladino and Di Mauro's work suggested that the first, small RNA molecules were most likely to come together in a water - free environment — like a formamide - rich lagoon.
Working with a team of collaborators, Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has developed an ultrasensitive detection method that can detect molecules associated with human and animal fecal matter in water systems.
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.
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.
Previous work with chloride ions and water has yielded conflicting results about how a water molecule (which is shaped like a boomerang) and a chloride ion (shaped like a ball) face each other.
«We could see water molecules and a belt of lipids around the protein, which was really transformative,» says Gonen, who also worked with Piotr Sliz to initiate the use of molecular replacement to phase electron diffraction data.
A large block of salt, like a pink Himalayan salt rock crystal, works by attracting the water molecules in your room.
These three minerals work to maintain the correct balance of water in your blood and cells, to control the passage of molecules into and out of your cells and to transmit the electricity that powers muscle contraction and nerve transmission.
This herb - infused micellar water (i.e. a water filled with oil - dissolving molecules) does the hard work of removing grime and leftover makeup with just a few swipes of a cotton swab.
All micellar waters utilize gentle micelles, which are small, round cleansing molecules that work together to trap and collect dirt, oil, makeup, and other impurities off your skin's surface.
Micelle technology works by suspending tiny micelle cleansing molecules in a soft water solution.
Micellar water works by utilizing tiny, round micelle cleansing molecules which are suspended in a solution.
We timed how long it took to dissolve and found out that hot water worked best because it has more energy and the molecules move faster.
That's why there are two distinct ways of getting useful work from the Sun, photovoltaic which utilises the tinier energy of Light to convert to electricity, and thermal panels which use the much bigger molecule moving power of beam Heat from the Sun to convert water to heat.
On the other hand, a thermal bath works in a statistical mechanical fashion, and it is only enough that a Boltzmann factor is applied to ensembles of water molecules to determine the probability of a single molecule leaving the surface.
So now we have a whole generation, because it was deliberately introduced into the education system, who believe the idiotic fisics «that visible light is capable of heating the water in the oceans», when in the real world and real world physics, a) water is a transparent medium for visible light, it doesn't absorb visible light at all but transmits it through unchanged, and b) visible light in the real world works on the electronic transition level on meeting matter, this level is tiny, it isn't capable of moving whole molecules of matter into vibration which is what it takes to heat water.
Visible light from the Sun works on the electronic transitional level which is too small to move the molecules of matter of land and water into vibration which is what it takes to heat these up.
Visible light is not thermal energy on the move, it can not heat water as thermal infrared can heat water, water is a transparent medium for it, it works on electronic transition level of effect on meeting matter, AND not vibrational resonance, i.e. moving the whole molecule, kinetic energy, which is the process of thermal infrared, etc. «Climate» science mangles all of these by giving the properties of one to another and then claiming visible light can do what it isn't physically possible for it to do.
At that two and one - half percent concentration in the lower troposphere works out to be 62 water vapor molecules for each carbon dioxide molecule.
«how it is supposed to work» = according to non-real-world theoretical models that say CO2 molecules that are spaced together 1/20, 000 ths more closely today than they were in 1990 function just like a blanket draped over the ocean waters, and this CO2 blanket determines the net heat changes in the depths of the ocean more so than variations in direct shortwave radiation absorption does.
, or work can be done to separate out the smell from the room together with all the molecules of alcohol and water that made up the perfume and get it back into the bottle, but that would take an awful lot of work, of energy expended to achieve such a thing, same in re-constituting the ink in solution back into its original constituent parts, but, given that statistically that ain't going to happen for all the spilt ink and evaporated perfume in the world unless you wan't to wait for an infinitely long time for it to happen and then maybe it never will, (you are assuming it is bound to happen but it's «statistically as likely not to happen as to happen» has to be included, so there's no «bound to» about it), or are willing to expend energy to do this for all the examples past present and future, then, for all practical natural processes purposes, the ink stays mixed and the perfume evaporated.
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