Sentences with phrase «strikes air molecules»
When a high - energy gamma ray from a blazar strikes air molecules in the upper regions of Earth's atmosphere, it produces a cascade of charged subatomic particles.
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An air shower occurs when a fast - moving cosmic ray particle strikes an air molecule high in the atmosphere, creating a violent collision.
Surface molecules in the greenhouse strike the air molecules touching them, setting them in motion.
Not exact matches
When cosmic rays strike the air, they create showers of ionizing radiation — particles that can knock electrons free of atoms and molecules — that can penetrate deep inside our bodies.
This jet, moving at perhaps 4,000 miles per hour, or more than five times the speed of sound in air, strikes so quickly that water molecules do not have time to flow away from the point of impact.
When cosmic ray particles strike the earth's atmosphere, collisions with air molecules initiate cascades of secondary particles.
Doug Cotton, doesn't it strike you as odd that the simple physical model that Geoff Wood presents, and that your and fellow members of Principia Scientific International (PSI) defend so vociferously, applies with equal force to (1) the water molecules in the 10,000 - meter gravitational column of the oceanic Challenger Deep, and (1) the air molecules in the 100,000 - meter gravitational column of the atmosphere over the Challenger Deep.