Sentences with phrase «heavier than air»

«I've heard carbon monoxide is heavier than air.

Just as Carbon Dioxide being heavier than air will always displace air to sink to the ground, unless work is being done on it to change this.

And then, you're shocked to be told it is heavier than air and sinks to the ground displacing air unless work is done to make it otherwise.

CO2 is heavier than air so it would be, unless the lab cylinder is being agitated, at the bottom.

And we're somehow supposed to believe that CO2 can heat the Earth because «science shows by experiment»..., or some out of context laws brought into «scientific truth», so CO2 «well mixed by Brownian motion», and though heavier than air in real life, «it accumulates into a thick blanket for hundreds and thousands of years reflecting thermal IR back at us»..

CO2 will sink through the atmosphere displacing the air, because one and a half times heavier than air, unless there's work being done to move it, wind.

(I was taught in schools before AGWScience mangling, that's why I understand that real gases have weight and volume, and what that means for CO2 in our atmosphere which is heavier than air..)

The main reasons, for my doubts, being that CFCs are heavier than air and are not likely to streak off to the Stratosphere and that they are mainly produced in the Northern Hemisphere by us humans and taking the Hadley, Ferrell and Polar Cells into account the North Pole is by far a more likely candidate for a hole in the Ozone.

Ideal gas which has no mass therefore no weight under gravity because there is nothing on which gravity can pull; which has no volume therefore does not expand or condense changing its weight under reduced and increased pressure or heat and cold and so does not become lighter or heavier than air under gravity; with no attraction therefore merely capable of bouncing off another and not capable of undergoing chemical changes, such as water and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere forming carbonic acid.

CO2 is heavier than air.

So these real gases have individual volumes which expand and condense and as they do this they become lighter and heavier than air.

So they can not understand heat transfer in our atmosphere unless they understand how real gases expand and condense and move in the fluid medium that these are under gravity, becoming lighter and heavier than air when heated or cooled forming areas of low and high pressure.

It's a dynamic system and CO2 is heavier than air, so it's natural propensity is to fall back to Earth.

During the past 25 years I've discussed this with at least 20 scientists, and not one of them has been able to tell the mechanism by which heavier than air CFC's make it up to the stratosphere.

Gases which are lighter than air, such as water vapour and methane, will always rise in air unless work is done to change that, just as, gases which are heavier than air, like carbon dioxide which is one and half times heavier, will always sink in air and will not spontaneously rise in air, unless work is done to change that.

'' Thus there is no reason for the hot air below to rise; if it were to rise, it would cool to a lower temperature than the air already there, would be heavier than the air there, and would just want to come down again.

I said the carbon dioxide would remain pooled on the ground because it was heavier than air and so couldn't rise up into the air.

This claim is essentially identical to Lord Kelvin's statement that «heavier than air flying machines are impossible» (eight years before the Wright Brothers), or Richard Woolley's remark that «space travel is utter bilge» (one year before Sputnik).

I asked him how carbon dioxide could accumulate because it was heavier than air, I said it sinks in air.

You do have such an amazing molecule in your fictional world, defying gravity it can stay up in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years accumulating though it's one and a half times heavier than air, and, with no heat capacity to spit at, it can trap heat, or, heck you can't even get your stories to say the same thing consistently, it becomes this great thermal blanket stopping heat escaping... just how much of that blanket is holes?

Carbon dioxide is heavier than air.

As a real gas carbon dioxide is of course one and half times heavier than air, so will always sink displacing air unless their is some work being done to change that, and it's not always windy..

CO2 is heavier than air and it settles into basements, sealed rooms & into protected glades..

I thought CO2 was heavier than air in all circumstances?

Knowing that 1/2 of the atmosphere falls below, and CO2 heavier than air and poorly mixed, then a daily fluence into and back out of the atmosphere of 1/2 of 1 / 20th 3000 Gtons conservatively yields 80 Gtons.

CO2 is a pollutant which kills since it is a poison kills since it is an Asphyxiant (heavier than air, smothers life) * «Police: Carbon dioxide led to death in McDonald's bathroom September 14, 2011 1:38 p.m. EDT STORY HIGHLIGHTS The carbon dioxide built up to toxic levels in the bathroom An 80 - year - old woman died after the incident September 7 lethal dose of carbon dioxide, authorities said Wednesday....»

However, carbon dioxide is heavier than air, so it can accumulate in low - lying areas (protected glens, basements).

Speaking of CO2, does anyone here know if the PPMs of CO2 are are stratified because it is heavier than air?

The Annual Mean graph shows there is slightly more CO2 near the ground... and levels decrease slightly until you reach 4 km... so it is back to the drawing board... either CO2 sinks because it is heavier than air and / or near ground CO2 doesn't heat up enough to rise in the air column.

CO2 is heavier than air, so the concentration near the floor will be much higher,» as well as protected glades, basements and sealed rooms.

The hole is open to the air over approximately a 40 meter diameter surface, and barring absolutely perfect symmetry the wind will generate a vortex over the hole, which would result in mixing on a time scale of around a day or so or faster, even were it some heavier than air gas such as propane.

4) CO2 has a molecular weight of 12 + O2 = 44 so it 50 % heavier than air but that is not enough to cause it separate out, particularly in the turbulent conditions of the troposphere.

Being heavier than air it would flow downhill on a suitable breeze to envelop the chosen target, and being both invisible and odourless the majority of its victims would be killed in their sleep within two or three minutes.

I've recently been challenged to argue against the proposition that CO2 is heavier than air and therefore «falls down» into the oceans.

Heavier than air (written form).

From «The Forever Now»: JULIE MEHRETU, «Heavier than air (written form),» 2014 (ink and acrylic on canvas).

When exhaled, smoke contains particles of chemicals that are heavier than air and will naturally fall instead of rise in the environment.

I opted for the larger iPad Air because it's just a little heavier than the Air, still very portable and my aging eyes do better with the bigger screen.

The gas, which is heavier than air,...

Being heavier than air, the gas accumulates at the bottom of poorly ventilated spaces.

Isopropyl alcohol has a 2 - 12 % explosive limit, meaning if the concentration of it in the air reaches above 2 % (by evaporating from the mixture and concentrating somewhere, as it's heavier than air), it can explode.

Propane is heavier than air and once pumped into the panic room would have sunk to the floor, not remained at the ceiling.

Many people died in Damascus because they hid in basements, when they would have been safer on the top floors: sarin vapour is heavier than air.

In the event of a chemical attack, though, he recommends staying indoors aboveground, because nerve agents are heavier than air and hence will accumulate in basements.

For the less volatile radioisotopes to travel, they must ride on particles that are heavier than air.

He tells us that for five years from 1903, the claims of Wilbur and Orville Wright to have flown a machine that was heavier than air were derided and dismissed by Scientific American, in spite of «scores of public demonstrations, affidavits from local dignitaries, and photographs...» Apparently, what the Wrights had done was considered scientifically impossible and so all their evidence was ridiculed.

Gas is heavier than air.

For thousands of years it insisted that the sun orbits the earth, and less than a hundred years ago it decreed that objects heavier than air could never fly.

Not exact matches

It's also not that much bigger or heavier than the MacBook Air.

These lighter - than - air flying ships are being designed to deliver heavy freight loads to remote parts of the developing world that aren't served by conventional air service — and can't afford the costly infrastructure required to provide it.