How to Use hydrogen in a Sentence

hydrogen

noun
  • 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
  • By the end of the year, every train on the line will be powered by hydrogen.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Green hydrogen power is in the cards soon as well, Woodhead says.
    Annabel Illingworth, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Part of that was an earlier flow of the liquid hydrogen into the tank.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • During a news briefing on Friday, Biden said the hydrogen hubs will help get there.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • McLean notes that hydrogen has been used to power rockets for decades.
    Dan Sloat, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
  • And most appliances in the United States weren’t designed to run on hydrogen blends.
    Brooke Staggs, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The issue was a core stage liquid hydrogen fuel tank leak, NASA said.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2022
  • So can the frozen hydrogen inside, a mix of the isotopes deuterium and tritium.
    David R Baker & Will Wade, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Because there’s nothing but gas, most of which is hydrogen.
    Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • That, too, honored French history: In the 18th century, the gardens were the site of the first hydrogen hot air balloon flight.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2024
  • Liquid hydrogen is one of the propellants needed to fill the rocket's core stage.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • California is on track to build the nation’s largest clean hydrogen hub by 2030.
    Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • In April, the city opened its first green hydrogen production facility; the plant, which has a filling station next door, produces up to 1,300 kilograms of green hydrogen daily.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024
  • These hydrogen isotopes will then combine through nuclear fusion, and in that process release neutrons.
    Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024

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