Sentences with phrase «out over large distances»

Not exact matches

Although they last mere milliseconds at any single frequency, their great distances from Earth — and large quantities of intervening plasma — delay their arrival at lower frequencies, spreading the signal out over a second or more and yielding a distinctive downward - swooping «whistle» across the typical radio receiver band.

OTOH, if by this you mean that both gases will have equilibrium densities and partial pressures that more or less exponentially decay, with distinct exponential constants so that the static equilibrium mixture will not end up being perfectly homogeneous over very large vertical distances, especially if one molecule is physically much larger than and more massive than the other, I don't have a quarrel with that (and neither does Dalton), although I would want to work out the numbers.

Greater variation with distance from the equator Energy spread out over a larger area Radiation has to penetrate a greater depth of atmosphere.