Meanings
- uncountableThe combined use of hydrogen and electricity as a power source
But the impact of the hydricity economy goes beyond transportation.
2005, Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon, Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy is Changing Everything, →ISBN1 more example
The figures indicate a slight fall-off in the hydricity growth rate over the next several decades.
2008, DAvid Sanborn Scott, Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe - uncountablechemistryThe tendency in a transition metal hydride for an H⁻ ion to transfer to a substrate
The hydricity concept applies to the interaction of M-H bonds with CO₂ as well.
2015, Michele Aresta, Angela Dibenedetto, Eugenio Quaranta, Reaction Mechanisms in Carbon Dioxide Conversion, →ISBN, page 871 more example
DuBois and coworkers carried out extensive studies of the thermodynamic hydricity of metal hydrides (3.2); in many cases the metal product resulting following hydride transfer will bind a CH3CN ligand (not shown in 3.2), so comparisons of hydricity will be solvent-dependent.
2011, R. Morris Bullock, Catalysis without Precious Metals
Origin
Translations
Italian idricità
- idricitàcombined power source
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