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    or semones (who dwell in the upper atmosphere) the manes and ghosts of heroes (who dwell in the lower atmosphere) the earth-dwelling gods like fauns...
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    in our own galaxy, and from distant galaxies. Upon impact with Earth's atmosphere, cosmic rays produce showers of secondary particles, some of which reach...
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    Earth's atmosphere and being detected by his device; this radiation was from cosmic rays. He published a paper in Physikalische Zeitschrift detailing...
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    wave generator claimed to disrupt the formation of hailstones in the atmosphere. These devices frequently engender conflict between farmers and neighbors...
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  • Thumbnail for Schumann resonances
    In 1893, George Francis FitzGerald noted that the upper layers of the atmosphere must be fairly good conductors. Assuming that the height of these layers...
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    Meteorological phenomena are described and quantified by the variables of Earth's atmosphere: temperature, air pressure, water vapour, mass flow, and the variations...
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    amount of particles, water droplets and ice crystals, suspended in the atmosphere. Humboldt was also an eager user of the cyanometer on his voyages and...
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    are anhydrous and when they come into contact with the moisture of the atmosphere, they begin to react extremely quickly. The black or dark brown lava and...
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    "Das Elektronenzählrohr" (The electron counting tube), Physikalische Zeitschrift, 29: 839-841. Geiger, H. and Müller, W. (1929) "Technische Bemerkungen...
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    9–10.8 cubic miles) of dense-rock equivalent (DRE) material into the atmosphere, and was the most recent confirmed VEI-7 eruption. Although the Mount...
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    Anderson, W. (1929). "Über die Grenzdichte der Materie und der Energie". Zeitschrift für Physik (in German). 56 (11–12): 851–856. Bibcode:1929ZPhy...56..851A...
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  • sulfide, selenide und telluride des lithiums, natriums und kaliums". Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie und Angewandte Physikalische Chemie. 40 (8): 588–93...
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    with an episodic ejection of material and magnetic flux from the Sun's atmosphere, known as a coronal mass ejection. The following day, a powerful geomagnetic...
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    other industrial uses—as a pressurizing and purge gas, as a protective atmosphere for arc welding, and in processes such as growing crystals to make silicon...
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    extra electron. The hydrogen anion is an important constituent of the atmosphere of stars, such as the Sun. In chemistry, this ion is called hydride. The...
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    process of water evaporated from the surface of living plants to the atmosphere. The warmth and abundant precipitation heavily contributes to the diversity...
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    number 54. It is a dense, colorless, odorless noble gas found in Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts. Although generally unreactive, it can undergo a few...
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    in the hexagonal Ice Ih phase. Less common phases may be found in the atmosphere and underground due to more extreme pressures and temperatures. Some phases...
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    Air shower (physics) (category Atmosphere)
    particles and ionized nuclei, produced in the atmosphere when a primary cosmic ray enters the atmosphere. When a particle of the cosmic radiation, which...
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    aircraft. There is a wide range of particulate matter suspended in the atmosphere at various height and in various sizes. By far the best-studied are the...
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    world's richest diamantiferous pipe; its past and future". Gemmologie, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gemmologischen Gesellschaft. 56 (1/2): 35–40. Mannion pp...
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  • Thumbnail for Diatomic molecule
    in the laboratory, and in interstellar space. About 99% of the Earth's atmosphere is composed of two species of diatomic molecules: nitrogen (78%) and oxygen...
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  • found to release 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere each year, nearly 1 percent of all global CO2 emissions in addition to...
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    that is unstable at room temperature. S 2O occurs rarely in natural atmospheres, but can be made by a variety of laboratory procedures. For this reason...
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    yellow solid and is highly hygroscopic. It can only be stored in an inert atmosphere or high vacuum. It is unstable in air or moisture and rapidly converts...
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  • with a density of 9.73 kg/m3, about 8 times the density of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, 1.217 kg/m3. It is one of the densest gases at room temperature...
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    Gesellschaft (ed.). "Einführung und Bestimmung des Lichtäquivalents". Zeitschrift für Physik (in German). 125 (1–3). Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg, Germany:...
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  • temperatures of 25 °C and pressures of 1 atmosphere. Where data points are unavailable for 25 °C or 1 atmosphere, values are given at a nearby temperature/pressure...
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    Strahlung bei sieben Freiballonfahrten (English translation)". Physikalische Zeitschrift. 13: 1084–1091. arXiv:1808.02927. "Reply to a parliamentary question"...
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  • Thumbnail for Czochralski method
    crystal growth process. This process is normally performed in an inert atmosphere, such as argon, in an inert chamber, such as quartz. Due to efficiencies...
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