Sentences with phrase «because oxygen and nitrogen»

-- You admit that CO2 absorbs and emits longwave, but say this is prevented from reaching the earth because oxygen and nitrogen are perfect insulators

Not exact matches

The heat absorbed by water vapor and carbon dioxide is shared with all the nitrogen, oxygen and argon, because the latter molecules are always bumping into water vapor and carbon dioxide as they mix in the atmosphere.

The color difference occurs because Earth's auroras are dominated by excited nitrogen and oxygen molecules, and Saturn's auroras are dominated by excited hydrogen molecules.

Matula says this sudden illumination happens because during the first bout of sonoluminescence, temperatures in the bubble, which can be as high as several hundred thousand degrees — hotter than the sun's surface — do something to nitrogen and oxygen to make them form compounds such as nitrous oxide that dissolve in the surrounding water.

Paramecium bursaria appears green under a microscope because each cell hosts hundreds of chlorella algae that supply the paramecium with sugar and oxygen in exchange for nitrogen and phosphorus.

This discovery is momentous because dwarf galaxies like the LMC tend to have a lower abundance of the heavy elements that make up complex organic molecules — most importantly, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.

Carbohydrates, fats and cholesterol are made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, but proteins are unique because they also contain nitrogen.

> The concentration of CO2 is the wrong measure for deciding whether it is «tiny», because it compares the amount of CO2 with the amounts of oxygen and nitrogen which don't absorb infra - red at normal pressures.

Arguing that IR - opaque CO2 is of no consequence because it's a trace gas (molecule-wise) compared to IR - transparent gases like oxygen and nitrogen, is like arguing that Al - Qaeda is of no consequence because it's a trace population (individual-wise) compared to Antarctic krill, ants, or nematodes.

«It is true that CO2 can absorb heat a little faster than nitrogen and oxygen but it becomes no hotter because it can not absorb anymore heat than there is available to the other gases.

(The main components of the atmosphere — nitrogen and oxygen — are not greenhouse gases, because they are virtually unaffected by long - wave, or infrared, radiation).

AGWSF's Greenhouse Effect doesn't have convection because it doesn't have real gases, it has substituted the imaginary ideal gas without properties and processes, but our real Earth's atmosphere does have convection — the heavy ocean of real fluid gas oxygen and nitrogen weighing a ton on our shoulders, a stone per square inch, acts like a blanket around the Earth stopping the heat escaping, compare with the Moon which has extreme swings of temperature.

Because AGWSF fisics is fake there is no internal coherence in it, for example: if «all electromagnetic energy is the same and all creates heat when absorbed» then AGWSF fisics doesn't have any answer to the real world physics understanding of how visible light is reflected / scattered in the atmosphere which is by real technical absorption of visible light by the electrons of the molecules of nitrogen and oxygen, hence our blue sky.

But Earth would not cool down as quickly as the Moon does if it had the same atmosphere but no GH gases, because nitrogen and oxygen would then hold 100 % of the energy in the atmosphere — even more than the 98 % they currently hold.

Because the molecules in a gas are constantly moving about and colliding with each other, it is very likely that some nearby nitrogen or oxygen molecule will collide with our excited infrared - active gas molecule before it has a chance to emit its light.

The earth is warm, because: oxygen & nitrogen are transparent and let the sunlight trough, to» WARM» the surface!

This was important because nitrogen and oxygen make up almost all of the gas in the atmosphere.

I'm sure you will also find that this lapse rate would be the same for an 80 % pure nitrogen and 20 % pure oxygen atmosphere, because such lapse rate is a function of the acceleration due to gravity.

If they put back the Water Cycle there is no «33 °C warming by greenhouse gases from -18 °C it would be without them», because the Earth with without water but with the rest of the atmosphere in place, practically all nitrogen and oxygen, would be 67 °C and not minus 18 °C.

By then atmospheric pressure will be 100 times what it is today, because the mass of Earth's carbon, when converted to CO2, is 100 times that of today's atmosphere, 98 % of which today is oxygen and nitrogen.

Alastair, I think your mistake is in thinking that because the nitrogen and oxygen don't radiate, there's no radiation from a given level at all.

Because water vapor is lighter than dry air (mostly nitrogen and oxygen), that layer of air can move upward in the attic.