Sentences with phrase «mostly nitrogen and oxygen»

Because water vapor is lighter than dry air (mostly nitrogen and oxygen), that layer of air can move upward in the attic.

These same absorbers of heat radiation (e.g., CO2) also EMIT the absorbed heat very fast to the surrounding air (mostly nitrogen and oxygen again).

So for every million molecules of air measured (mostly nitrogen and oxygen), 400 of those molecules are CO2.

The composition of human flatus has been studied (Suarez et al. 1997; Tomlin et al. 1991), and comprises mostly nitrogen and oxygen (derived from air that has been swallowed or diffusion from the blood), and carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane (arising intraluminally from chemical reactions and bacterial fermentation).

The answer is that before the sunlight reaches Earth, it first has to travel through our atmosphere, which is a layer of gas made up of tiny molecules of mostly nitrogen and oxygen that surrounds our planet.

Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and oxygen, but the exact concentration varies with altitude.

Not exact matches

Oxygen mostly shines green; nitrogen contributes blue and red.

The gas is only found in trace amounts in Earth's atmosphere (which is mostly made up of nitrogen and oxygen), even though carbon is the primary basis for life on our planet.

Since life mostly consist out of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and «reactive nitrogen», ecosystems within the earth's biosphere were established based on what element was limiting.

Mars also has a mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere, with traces of nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon monoxide and some other gases.

There are no GHGes per say — we all know the earth has an ATMOSPHERE, mostly consisting of lots of water in some form, lots of nitrogen and oxygen and a teeny tiny amount of CO2 (oh and dirt).

But let's put these unconventional views aside for a moment, and accept that certain atmospheric gases (e.g., CO2, for one) DO absorb more heat radiation than their more neutral cohorts (e.g., nitrogen and oxygen mostly).