hydroxyls

These pairs are known as hydroxyls and tend to steal atoms from other molecules, including each other.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

These pairs are known as hydroxyls and tend to steal atoms from other molecules, including each other.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

I expected that as well, although I'm saying that most of the vapors are by-products of chemical reactions rather than sublimation, and the icy grains are accumulated from molecules and grains migrating across the TCS, of which the water/hydroxyls, among some other molecules, were created by reactions with solar plasma stream protons and silicates in the lunar regolith.

LCROSS Confirms "Buckets" of Water on the Moon | Universe Today 2009

This is what hydroxyls do with olefins, incidentally, so you can look on it as the hydroxyl briefly looking at the ring and seeing, not that "one and a half bonds" thing I mentioned above, but a double carbon-carbon bond, which hydroxyls just love to glom onto.

Hot Buttered James Killus 2008

If the hydroxyls occupy the ortho-position to methyl, they may form xanthenes by splitting off water --

Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

Recent work, however, has shown the existence of several so-called _mixed glycerides_, in which the hydroxyls of the same molecule of glycerol are displaced by two or sometimes three different acid radicles.

The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

From these results it would appear that the number of acetyl groups entering the benzoates is the same as with the unbenzoylated fibres, the benzoyl has no influence upon the hydroxyls as against the acetyl.

Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

Since tannin on acetylating yields a considerable amount of triacetylgallic acid, it should, according to Dekker, contain at least six acetylisable hydroxyls.

Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

But a special form of it - hydroxyls - appears to be locked away in the lava.

Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

One of the thieving hydroxyls can then nab the other's hydrogen atom, turning back into a water molecule.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009