Sentences with phrase «primarily nitrogen and oxygen»

The real world's atmosphere was likened to a real greenhouse which has both heating and cooling mechanisms in place to get optimum growing conditions for plants, in other words, in the real world's analogy of greenhouse with convection and open windows, all the gases which are our atmosphere are greenhouse gases, primarily nitrogen and oxygen for the stability of temperature by gravity and wind and water for cooling by convection of gases with volume.

Be it the azure of high noon or the orange glow of dusk, the colors of the sky result from sunlight interacting with molecules in the air, primarily nitrogen and oxygen, which cause it to be deflected in all directions, a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering.

Not exact matches

As he did in his fascinating portraits of the elements, Kean profiles individual gases such as nitrogen and oxygen primarily through the scientists and entrepreneurs who discovered or sought to harness them.

The atmosphere consists primarily of 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, a highly variable smattering of water vapor, and trace amounts of argon, carbon dioxide, and other gases.

Life as we know it requires three primary ingredients: liquid water; a source of energy for metabolism; and the right chemical ingredients, primarily carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.

Each amino acid is primarily made up of four key elements: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, although each overall molecule has characteristic «side chain» which contains traces of different elements.

Auroral emissions typically occur at altitudes of about 100 km (60 miles) and are often green, white, or reddish in colour depending on what species (atomic oxygen, molecular oxygen, or nitrogen, respectively) is primarily emitting light.