Chemical-energy Sentence Examples

Photosynthesis is what converts lightenergy from the sun into chemical energy for plants.

Currently, most biofuel is burned to release its stored chemical energy.

Another branch, related to energetics, is concerned with the transformation of chemical energy into other forms of energy - heat, light, electricity.

The main energy used to power the vehicle or other device is from the chemical energy of the battery.

Combustion is a familiar example of the transformation of chemical energy into heat and light; the quantitative measures of heat evolution or absorption (heat of combustion or combination), and the deductions therefrom, are treated in the article Thermochemistry.

Transformations of electrical into chemical energy are witnessed in the processes of electrolysis (q.v.; see also Electrochemistry and Electrometallurgy).

They convert energy from food into chemical energy called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.

Fuel cells are similar to batteries and convert chemical energy into usable electricity.