Sentences with phrase «because noble gases»

The researchers know these particular Buckyballs are extraterrestrial because the noble gases trapped inside have an unusual ratio of isotopes, atoms whose nuclei have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.

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The state Democratic Committee, in turn, has accused Cox of pushing the fracking issue because of his ties to the natural gas industry, with some lawmakers, including IDC Leader Jeff Klein, to call for an investigation of the financial relationship with Noble Energy.

Meanwhile, Cox is being criticized by Democrats because he is on the board of directors of the Texas - based natural gas drilling company Noble Energy and holds about $ 3 million in its stock.

Because different noble gases move at various speeds through rock and water, the proportions present revealed that although the gases had come from deep underground, they had arrived directly rather than percolating through layers of rock and water (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1322107111).

That's because, on top of bringing water, they are also believed to have delivered much of Earth's so - called volatile elements, namely, carbon, nitrogen, and noble gases, says Conel Alexander, a cosmochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. To explain the abundance of these elements, there would have had to have been enough impacts to also deliver Earth's water, he says.

While argon comprises only a tiny fraction of the gases lost to space from Mars, it is special because it's a noble gas.

It is also a noble gas — so labeled because it was long believed to be «too aloof» to react with the other elements on the periodic table.

The prevalences and isotope ratios of the noble, or inert, gases, such as neon, argon, krypton and xenon, provide a valuable tracer of ancient processes, because they are chemically nonreactive and so do not change much over time.

While argon makes up only a tiny fraction of the gas lost to space from Mars, it is special because it's a noble gas.

Hydrogen cools the best because it's the fastest [2 g / mol], Air slower [~ 29 g / mol], Argon slower [40 g / mol], CO2 slower [44 g / mol], and various noble gasses like Radon slower still.