Sentences with phrase «krypton escape»
Because light isotopes of krypton escape into space more quickly than heavy isotopes, the atmosphere can only get «heavier»
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«And the diagnostic clue is that all of the isotope ratios for neon, argon, krypton, xenon, nitrogen, what have you, look as if they have suffered an escape process in which the lightest isotope escaped preferentially relative to the heavier ones» — a process called fractionation.