rock-water

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2O2 molecule for every two hole charge carriers that cross the rock-water interface.

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  1. Water issuing from a rock. It [the Rhone] was extremely muddy at its entrance, when I saw it, though as clear as rockwater at its going out. Addison, Remarks on Italy, Geneva, and the Lake. The river Wherfe … runs in a bed of stone, and looks as clear as rock-water. Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, III. 124. (Davies.)

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  • 2O2 molecule for every two hole charge carriers that cross the rock-water interface. —  SPACE.com
  • We know the transparency of the sea and that its clearness is far beyond that of rock-water. —  Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English
  • However, with water, we see a new reaction: the holes that flow through the rock and pass through the rock-water interface oxidize water to hydrogen peroxide, H —  SPACE.com
  • Along the way dangerous Reactive Oxygen Species, constantly produced at rock-water interfaces and during peroxy hydrolysis, challenged the early microbes, archaea and bacteria. —  SPACE.com
  • Soon after we started and were proceeding on our course, south 26 degrees west, from the rock-water, the natives all fell back and we saw no more of them. —  Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
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