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Developing such materials "requires understanding of what the surface does with the oxygens, and how it's structured," Gómez-Bombarelli says.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023

Zeolites can trap copper, iron and other metals that can act as catalysts to replace methane's four hydrogen atoms with two oxygens.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2019

The oxygens were then free to link with iron, creating vast rust-colored deposits of iron oxide across our planet's surface.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 10, 2019

They are built with a three-dimensional framework of silica tetrahedra in which all four corner oxygens are shared with adjacent tetrahedra.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The mass spectrometer then works out how many carbons there are in the molecule, how many hydrogens, how many oxygens; and starts to build up the complete structure.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2015