Sentences with phrase «hydrogen escape into»
Then, sunlight split the water molecules, letting hydrogen escape into space.
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But Catling's team proposes instead that the hydrogen escaped into space through a process called methane photolysis, in which the hydrogen - containing methane reacts with oxygen such that hydrogen atoms are freed.
As the water boiled away, the hydrogen escaped into interstellar space while the oxygen came back down and bonded with carbon atoms.
Not exact matches
For instance, if the earth were slightly larger, hydrogen, a light gas, could not escape into the atmosphere at its prescribed rate (due to an increase in the earth's gravitational field), and over time would build up and cause life to cease.
This environment would have limited black holes from growing very big as molecular hydrogen turned gas into stars far enough away to escape the black holes» gravitational pull.
The free hydrogen easily escapes into space, Dan Garisto reported in «Massive dust storms are robbing Mars of its water» (SN: 2/17/18, p. 8).
Oxygen will be left in the stratosphere — perhaps misleading aliens into thinking the planet is still inhabited — while the hydrogen is light enough to escape into space.
With too much UV light, no water could persist on the surface because its molecules would break down into hydrogen and oxygen gas and escape through the atmosphere.
However, when water molecules are broken by the stellar radiation into hydrogen and oxygen, the relatively light hydrogen atoms can escape the planet.
The preferential escape of lighter hydrogen over time would then lead to a skewed ratio of H2O to HDO on Mars, indicative of how much water has escaped into space.
When water molecules rise into the upper atmosphere, sunlight breaks the water into hydrogen ions which are fast and escape easily, and heavier oxygen ions which are carried away by the electric field.
When water molecules rise high in an atmosphere, ultraviolet radiation split the water molecules into its component gases, oxygen and hydrogen, and the lighter hydrogen molecules escape into space.