For example, the «frost line» in our solar system — the distance where ices and
other volatile elements will not evaporate — is roughly at 500 million miles from the sun.
That means zinc and
other volatile elements, notably water, probably evaporated as the moon formed, or soon afterward.
Scientists have long assumed that the heat from an impact of that size would cause hydrogen and
other volatile elements to boil off into space, meaning the Moon must have started off completely dry.
Water and
other volatile elements arrived on Earth via meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites.
In a new study, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Professor James Day and colleagues examined the chemical composition of zinc and
other volatile elements contained in the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosion.
Not exact matches
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Compared with meteorites, Earth and the
other inner planets contain relatively low amounts of water and
volatile elements, which were not abundant in the inner solar system during planet formation.
The works in exhibition seek to exist between genres of figurative or abstract, highbrow or lowbrow, sentimental and academic, and all the
other limiting binaries of interpretation to be both
volatile and conservative, soulful and austere, containing
elements that appeal to both sides in these paintings, or as the artist puts it, «ambassadors between the two mindsets.»
Other eco-friendly
elements include low
volatile organic compound carpet tiles over raised plenum access floors, abundant natural lighting, and cool roofs.