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Why are carbon dioxide and water vapor called selective absorbers?
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Any object that can specifically absorb and emit radiation (in the form of, say, infrared radiation), is called a selective absorbers.
An example is: Snow. It is a good absorber of infrared radiation but poor absorber of sunligh. Object that selectively absorb radiation at some wavelength tend to radiate radiation at that same wavelength.
CO2 and water vapors are both very good absorber of infrared radiation but at the same time poor absorber of different forms of solar radiation that are visible to us.
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What are water vapor and carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere good absorbers of?
infrared radiation
The two principle absorbers of radiation emitted by earth's surface are carbon doxide and?
water vapor and carbon dioxide.
What two principle absorbers of radiation emitted by Earth's surface are carbon dioxide and?
Water vapor.
What are the two principle absorbers of radiation emitted by earth's suface?
carbon dioxide and water vapor
What do you call gases that are good absorbers of outgoing radiation?
Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane, etc.
Could carbon be called carbon dioxide?
No. Carbon dioxide contains oxygen as well as carbon.
Does carbon dioxide affect humans?
We exhale carbon dioxide or called CO2
How does carbon dioxide affects humans?
We exhale carbon dioxide or called CO2
Do we breath carbon dioxide?
The air you breathe out contains the gas called carbon dioxide
What are the best absorbers of thermal radiation?
Black, dull surfaces are the best absorbers of thermal radiation because the heat doesn't reflect off it unlike shiny surfaces.
What are Carbon bonds are called?
J says carbon dioxide
When a chunk of dry ice is at room temperature a cloud of carbon dioxide vapor forms. The carbon dioxide is changing from a?
The solid carbon dioxide is transformed directly in gaseous carbon dioxide; this phenomenon is called sublimation.
