How to Use hydrogen in a Sentence

hydrogen

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  • But, like the rest of the cosmos, the hydrogen gas is moving away.
    — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Each galaxy has hydrogen gas that aids in the birth of stars.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This idea of green hydrogen is now picking up speed around the world.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The team also plans to build a yacht with a hydrogen fuel cell.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Air products is the largest hydrogen producer in the world.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The fusion of two hydrogen atoms to make helium is the main process that powers the sun and other stars.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • To fuse hydrogen and shine brightly, stars need to be at least 80 times as massive as Jupiter.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • In the early universe, dark stars could have formed from the collapse of helium and hydrogen clouds made in the big bang.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
  • During a news briefing on Friday, Biden said the hydrogen hubs will help get there.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And most appliances in the United States weren’t designed to run on hydrogen blends.
    — Brooke Staggs, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Because there’s nothing but gas, most of which is hydrogen.
    — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Of all the emerging forms of aviation propulsion, hydrogen seems the least likely to be an early adopter.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
  • To top it off, the Sky OV runs on a mix of hydrogen fuel and electric power to ensure true zero-emission flight.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Some 80 percent of atoms fell a few centimeters below the trap, in line with what a cloud of regular hydrogen atoms would do in the same setup.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Plasma: Made up of two isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium), the plasma is the fuel that drives the fusion process.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • The story that the data tell is that all of the elements in our bodies, except for the hydrogen in water molecules, were made in stars.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • To make it, Dias’s team loaded a thin lutetium foil in a diamond vise and injected a mix of hydrogen and nitrogen gas.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Helium is made up of two protons and two neutrons, and hydrogen is just one proton and no neutrons.
    — Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
  • In 1998, the Lunar Prospector Mission peered into the shadowed places described by the physicist and found more hydrogen there than elsewhere.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Pilots and organizers say hydrogen has been hard to come by.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • To make it, wood is burned in a very low-oxygen environment where most of the volatile compounds (water, hydrogen, and methane) are released.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Ice can be broken down into oxygen and hydrogen used in rocket fuel and in other ways.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Our imagining of electric, biofuel or hydrogen planes needs to join the flying pigs.
    — Peter Knapp, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But could an argument instead be made for hydrogen power and the Toyota Mirai?
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Its hydrogen fuel cells can then power the aircraft’s electric engines by night.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2023
  • These include fuels for aviation and shipping that will need a mix of hydrogen, biomass, and electricity to save up to 2 Gt of emissions.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The outburst came from a strange array of cooler molecules, not the helium and hydrogen spewed by binary stars.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • The trains are powered by combining hydrogen with oxygen.
    — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The company plans to use renewable energy and waste heat from power plants to split hydrogen from water.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • Such a system weighs half of an equivalent lithium-ion battery and a car can be refuelled with hydrogen at a filling station as fast as with petrol.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Feb. 2024

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