Sentences with phrase «by molecules bumping»
4 Transfer of Energy Conduction — transfer by molecules bumping into each other.
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For example, Quanterix's Simoa (single - molecule array) technology bumps up sensitivity by digitizing an ELISA (enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay), a highly effective method of determining binding between two molecules.
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.
Most of the time it gets rid of that energy by bumping into another molecule, converting that internal energy back into translational motion of the molecules with respect to each other.
, that carbon dioxide is bumped by the other gas molecules and so doing thoroughly mixes.
4) As I understand it, the ~ 15μm radiation from the Surface to the Atmosphere is absorbed by H2O and CO2 molecules which, when excited, bump into nitrogen and oxygen and other air molecules, and heat the air.
Ira — regarding your summary comment 4) at May 8, 2011 at 7:51 pm my comment — NO, the atmosphere does NOT emit LWIR across a distribution of wavelengths like a blackbody, see my earlier comment at Dave in Delaware says: May 8, 2011 at 7:00 am Ira Glickstein, PhD says: «4) As I understand it, the ~ 15μm radiation from the Surface to the Atmosphere is absorbed by H2O and CO2 molecules which, when excited, bump into nitrogen and oxygen and other air molecules, and heat the air.
The heated gas molecules would bump into other air molecules and warm them, and like any material above absolute zero, the Atmosphere would emit radiation at a variety of long - wave wavelengths in random directions, some of which would be absorbed by the surface of the planet, warming it further.
mkelly says: March 1, 2011 at 8:44 am Dave Springer says: March 1, 2011 at 7:53 am «Nitrogen doesn't absorb infrared radiation but it can certainly gain kinetic energy by excited molecules of CO2 and H2O bumping into nitrogen molecules.