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atomic hydrogen

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noun

Chemistry.
  1. hydrogen in the form of single atoms, rather than molecules, which makes it extremely reactive.


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To address this, the research team has introduced a model that predicts the dehydrogenation barriers using easily computable parameters: the crystal Hamilton population orbital of the Mg-H bond and the distance between atomic hydrogen atoms.

From Science Daily May 17, 2024

With it, they zoomed in on radio waves emitted by atomic hydrogen gas.

From Science Magazine Dec. 29, 2023

The cosmic radio-frequency spectrum is expected to show a strong absorption signal corresponding to the 21-centimetre-wavelength transition of atomic hydrogen around redshift 20, which arises from Lyman-α radiation from some of the earliest stars1,2,3,4.

From Nature Feb. 27, 2018

Much of the gas near the Sun is atomic hydrogen.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

They had wanted action, but they had no weapons except their invisibility and the atomic hydrogen.

From The Black Star Passes by Campbell, John Wood

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