News tagged with water molecules


urine

Producing hydrogen from urine

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (52) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract ...


HCl dissociation

Scientists Create Smallest Ever Droplet of Acid, Solve Ozone Puzzle

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its atomic form, chlorine can destroy vast quantities of ozone. But exactly how chlorine is created in the ultracold conditions of the stratosphere has puzzled scientists. Now, a team of ...


ice water

Scientists Observe Liquid Water Below Freezing

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Below 0 °C, water turns to ice. But beyond that, or below about -75 °C, the ice may turn back into liquid water. While scientists have previously predicted this phase transition with computer ...


Alterations in brain's white matter key to schizophrenia, study shows

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Schizophrenia, a chronic and debilitating disorder marked in part by auditory hallucinations and paranoia, can strike in late adolescence or early adulthood at a time when people are ready to stand on their own two feet as ...


Formation of the smallest droplet of acid

Formation of the smallest droplet of acid

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Exactly four water molecules and one hydrogen chloride molecule are necessary to form the smallest droplet of acid. This was the result of work by the groups of Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (physical chemistry) ...


New MR technique may help save women from unnecessary breast biopsies

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new MR procedure that uses diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) to determine whether or not a breast lesion is malignant or benign may help reduce unnecessary breast biopsies, according to a study performed at the National ...


Ordered Water: Just how much water is there in calcined gypsum?

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a water-containing ...


Dancing 'adatoms' help chemists understand how water molecules split

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Single oxygen atoms dancing on a metal oxide slab, glowing brighter here and dimmer there, have helped chemists better understand how water splits into oxygen and hydrogen. In the process, the scientists have visualized a ...


Sunlight turns carbon dioxide to methane

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power, according to Penn State researchers.


Lovely ‘snowfakes’ mimic nature, advance science

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exquisitely detailed and beautifully symmetrical, the snowflakes that David Griffeath makes are icy jewels of art.


Forget the freezer: Research suggests novel way to control water behavior

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team of scientists ...


Accidental discovery has potential for new applications in packaging

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A recent discovery at Case Western Reserve University may help keep food and drugs safer and fresher longer and electronic equipment dryer and more secure than ever before - all at a lower cost.


Most Distant Water in the Universe Found

Most Distant Water in the Universe Found

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found the most distant water yet seen in the Universe, in a galaxy more than 11 billion light-years from Earth. Previously, the most distant water had been seen in a galaxy ...


Frost Accumulates on 'Snow White' Trench

Phoenix Site on Mars May be in Dry Climate Cycle Phase

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. However, when long-term climate cycles make the site warmer, the soil may get moist enough ...


Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation ...



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