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hydroxide
noun
An univalent anion (OH-) based on the hydroxyl functional group.
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Even after being dunked for 95 hours in hydrochloric acid or 44 hours in sodium hydroxide it maintained a contact angle of greater than 150°.
It is a "rebreather", which recycles exhaled air using lithium hydroxide to absorb toxic carbon dioxide.
Worse, its electrolyte is made of potassium hydroxide, which tends to react with CO2 in the air to form potassium carbonate.
Noxious sodium hydroxide had been discharged illegally into the Huai River.
But of the five basic ways to design fuel cells, only two work at room (let alone North Atlantic) temperatures and only one, the alkaline fuel cell, is robust enough to do the job.Alkaline cells (so called because they employ potassium hydroxide as an electrolyte) are reliable enough for NASA, America's space agency, to have used them on board the space shuttle.
This points to silver's effect on the production of hydroxide radicals as the explanation.Second, for proteins to function correctly, they must be folded in the right way.
The new system does away with canisters of lithium hydroxide used to absorb CO2 passively.
After that you warm the oil up and add sodium hydroxide and methanol.
It is composed of what sounds like a bizarre mixture: fly-ash, a fine-grained waste product from coal-fired power stations; carbon nanotubes, cylindrical molecules made of elemental carbon; and two binding agents, sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide.
This requires two porous electrodes, separated by an electrolyte composed of potassium hydroxide.
The sodium hydroxide (known as "lye", in the trade) breaks the oil molecules into fatty acids and glycerol.
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