Not exact matches
Other sources of salts include the solid and
gaseous materials that escaped from the
Earth's crust through volcanic vents or that originated in the
atmosphere.
Surprisingly, although the planet weighs the same as
Earth, it is 60 percent larger in diameter, meaning that it must have a very thick,
gaseous atmosphere.
The two researchers prepared a closed system of glass flasks and tubes and injected a
gaseous mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water — four basic compounds thought to be abundant in
Earth's primitive
atmosphere.
Given that CO2 is a relatively minute proportion of
Earth's greenhouse gases, and given that all of
Earth's greenhouse gases together are a relatively minuscule proportion of
Earth's total
atmosphere, we might question whether such a tiny
gaseous fragment can actually drive everything else.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG)- Geenhouse gases are those
gaseous constituents of the
atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb and emit radiation at specific wavelengths within the spectrum of thermal infrared radiation emitted by the
Earth's surface, the
atmosphere itself, and by clouds.