How to Use hydrogen in a Sentence

hydrogen

noun
  • The hydrogen won’t just sit in tanks.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
  • 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 main culprit is the cost of hydrogen.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The team also plans to build a yacht with a hydrogen fuel cell.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
  • By the end of the year, every train on the line will be powered by hydrogen.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The wind farms that can that can create this clean hydrogen fuel.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • But, like the rest of the cosmos, the hydrogen gas is moving away.
    — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • That means silicon would have been free to bind with hydrogen and form silane.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Not all tokamaks can combine the same types of hydrogen atoms.
    — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The amount of hydrogen within the cloud is about 1 million times the mass of the sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The chemical is made up of a hydrogen atom and three oxygen atoms.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 June 2022
  • The plan is to split seawater and store hydrogen safely on ships.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Green hydrogen power is in the cards soon as well, Woodhead says.
    — Annabel Illingworth, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • McLean notes that hydrogen has been used to power rockets for decades.
    — Dan Sloat, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
  • Iron sinks to the middle, silicate rock floats above it, hydrogen sits on top of that.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 24 May 2026
  • That begs the question, why bother with hydrogen?
    — New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The hydrogen helicopter is the next step in that same vision.
    — Omar Kardoudi may 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2026
  • That first test flight was grounded for months because of leaking hydrogen.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Arcturus is running out of hydrogen fuel in its core.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Part of that was an earlier flow of the liquid hydrogen into the tank.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Our Sun will run out of hydrogen in another five billion years or so.
    — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • And the quantity of hydrogen those clients use is a bit small compared to our main markets.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Right now, the well in Mali remains the only viable hydrogen well in the world.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
  • MgH₂ acts as the anode while hydrogen gas serves as the cathode.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Stars are born in vast clouds of molecular hydrogen gas laced with heavy elements.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This is on the same main line where work had already been done to fix an issue on the liquid hydrogen supply line.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Fusion is the same energy source that powers the sun, and hydrogen bombs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • How did anyone get away with flying people on a hydrogen airship?
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • But for decades it's taken a back seat to oil and gas, nuclear, hydrogen, wind, and solar.
    — Daniel Moore, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024

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