Sentences with phrase «pure carbon dioxide ice»

At the temperatures seen in Mars» cloud layer, pure carbon dioxide ice crystals are too small to gather clouds around them.

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Carbon dioxide is fully part of that water cycle where water heated by the thermal infrared direct from the Sun evaporates and anyway lighter than air rises in air and takes away heat from the surface — all pure clean rain is carbonic acid, the water vapour spontaneously joining with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere releases its heat in the colder heights and condenses out back into liquid water and ice, cooling the Earth from the 67 °C it would be without the water cycle.