How to Use hydrogen in a Sentence

hydrogen

noun
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  • McLean notes that hydrogen has been used to power rockets for decades.
    — Dan Sloat, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
  • The fuel cell turns hydrogen into electricity that can be used or stored in lithium-ion battery banks.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 May 2024
  • 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
  • California is on track to build the nation’s largest clean hydrogen hub by 2030.
    — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • On early Venus, sunlight broke up water in its atmosphere into hydrogen and oxygen.
    — Eryn Cangi, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
  • Toyota is working on up to 10 different uses for hydrogen in its vehicles.
    — Angela Dewan, CNN, 11 July 2024
  • That’s because the water jet contained molecular hydrogen.
    — Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 22 May 2024
  • Others will need to either install carbon capture equipment, or natural gas plants could swap in green hydrogen as their primary fuel.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 July 2024
  • Hydrodynamic escape stopped after most hydrogen was removed, but a little bit of hydrogen was left behind.
    — Eryn Cangi, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
  • The run offered proof that a motorcycle running on hydrogen can work, producing the roar that people expect from a motorcycle without all the emissions.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 July 2024
  • The former lets only two wavelengths of light common in emission nebulae, hydrogen alpha and oxygen III, through.
    — PCMAG, 16 May 2024
  • Kishida traveled to the kingdom in July and announced the launch of an initiative on green energy projects, including hydrogen and ammonia.
    — Christine Burke and Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 May 2024
  • These colors are caused by a combination of nitrogen, hydrogen and helium present at different levels in the atmosphere where oxygen is thinner.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 18 May 2024
  • 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
  • The Biden administration’s support for electrification and blue and green hydrogen production has been a boon for clean-energy stocks.
    — Anya Andrianova, Fortune, 21 July 2024
  • 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

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