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
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Each galaxy has hydrogen gas that aids in the birth of stars.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
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By the end of the year, every train on the line will be powered by hydrogen.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022
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This idea of green hydrogen is now picking up speed around the world.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
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The team also plans to build a yacht with a hydrogen fuel cell.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
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This allowed the first atoms of hydrogen to take shape, birthing the first stars, which gathered in the first galaxies.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
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Air products is the largest hydrogen producer in the world.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
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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
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To fuse hydrogen and shine brightly, stars need to be at least 80 times as massive as Jupiter.
—Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
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The wind farms that can that can create this clean hydrogen fuel.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 June 2022
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Not all tokamaks can combine the same types of hydrogen atoms.
—Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
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Green hydrogen power is in the cards soon as well, Woodhead says.
—Annabel Illingworth, TIME, 25 July 2024
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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
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The chemical is made up of a hydrogen atom and three oxygen atoms.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 June 2022
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The most recent involved a large leak of the cryogenic liquid hydrogen on one of the supply lines.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
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Part of that was an earlier flow of the liquid hydrogen into the tank.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022
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Coal contains trace amounts of chlorine, which combines with hydrogen when the coal is burned to form HCl.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 21 Jan. 2022
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The green tinge results from a chemical reaction between the sulfur in the egg white and the hydrogen in the yolk.
—USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
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During a news briefing on Friday, Biden said the hydrogen hubs will help get there.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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McLean notes that hydrogen has been used to power rockets for decades.
—Dan Sloat, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
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And most appliances in the United States weren’t designed to run on hydrogen blends.
—Brooke Staggs, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2024
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But for decades it's taken a back seat to oil and gas, nuclear, hydrogen, wind, and solar.
—Daniel Moore, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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During the launch attempt Monday, engineers were able to stem the leak and resume the flow of hydrogen into the tank.
—Kenneth Chang, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
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The issue was a core stage liquid hydrogen fuel tank leak, NASA said.
—Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2022
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At that point, the massive star at the center of our Solar System will have eaten through most of its hydrogen core.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Jan. 2022
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So can the frozen hydrogen inside, a mix of the isotopes deuterium and tritium.
—David R Baker & Will Wade, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
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The world’s first commuter train route powered entirely by hydrogen is in the works in the state of Lower Saxony.
—Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
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Because there’s nothing but gas, most of which is hydrogen.
—Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
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Billions of years ago, Earth’s neighbor had plenty of water — and the reason it’s now gone may have to do with whizzing hydrogen atoms.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 8 May 2024
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There are some early variations in the market, but true clear or colorless hydrogen is still in development.
—Whitaker Irvin Jr., Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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