Sentences with phrase «heat nearby gas»

These high - speed electrons then collide with and heat nearby gas.

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The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.
The heated gas became so diffuse, it could not form nearby stars and solar systems, nor fall back inward to feed black holes.
It is hoped that Philae will also see jets of gas and dust emerging from nearby pits as the comet heats up as it travels towards the sun.
That interaction would set off a shock wave through nearby interstellar gas, heating the nebula to produce the infrared glow (The Astrophysical Journal, doi.org/b56t).
Nearby, large stars erupt in cataclysmic supernova explosions, sparking additional emissions from gas heated to millions of degrees.
«The UV radiation from a massive star will ionize and heat up disks of gas surrounding nearby low - mass stars,» Bally says.
Reddish nebulae reveal regions of active star formation, where young, hot stars heat up nearby gas clouds.
Heating due to the X-rays was also enough to effectively prevent nearby gas from collapsing to form stars for tens and maybe even hundreds of millions of years.
In a sense, Mars is the exoplanet next door: a nearby example of how gas, dust and heat combine and arrange themselves into a planet.
Gas molecules are far apart so won't vibrate in unison but they move around very quickly and so they quickly redistribute their heat by randomly colliding with nearby molecules (collisions = heat)-- again little time lag.
Also, regarding subsea volacanic eruptions — a volcanic eruption involves release of magma at several thousand degrees C plus superheated gases — when that hits cold sea water you are going to have a very violent and explosive change of form from lquid water to steam combined with the release of dissolved gases (mostly CO2)-- I am not sure what laws of Chemistry and Physics you are looking at, but I would suggest that that those bubbles and heated gases and water will rise to to the surface very quickly and have a major local effect on any nearby ice.
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