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Why can gases such as helium escape earth's atmosphere?
Gases like helium can escape Earth's atmosphere because they have low molecular weight, which allows them to reach escape velocity more easily. Additionally, helium is light enough to be carried away by solar winds, contributing to its escape from the atmosphere.
Can the shuttle escape the earths atmosphere?
No it can't.
How can helium escape the atmosphere?
Helium can escape the atmosphere due to its low atomic mass and high velocity at which its atoms move, allowing them to reach escape velocity. The Earth's gravitational pull is not strong enough to retain lighter gases like helium, especially at higher altitudes where the atmosphere is thinner. Additionally, solar radiation and other factors can contribute to the dispersal of helium into space. This process is gradual, leading to the eventual depletion of helium in the atmosphere over time.
When earths early atmosphere formed which gases where lost because earths gravity was too weak?
Hydrogen and helium
Why can helium escape earths atmosphere?
The helium atom does not form a diatomic molecule, unlike the main components of the atmosphere, nitrogen and oxygen, and it is a very light atom, actually the second lightest of all atoms (second only to hydrogen) and it is gravity which holds our atmosphere in place on the surface of the Earth, so the lighter the particle, the more easily it can escape into space.
Why can gases such as helium escape the earth's atmosphere?
because earth has gas particles that can let helium go
Which of these is not one of the primary gase found in earths atmosphere?
Helium is not one of the primary gases found in Earth's atmosphere. The primary gases in Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. Helium makes up a very small percentage of the atmosphere.
Why can a gas such as helium escape the atmosphere?
the molecues are lighter than the ones in the air.
What is the earths atomsphere?
the earth atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide and oxygen and some helium.
Can helium gas spread?
Yes, like most gasses it can spread within currents and mix in with other gases. It is lighter than air, so on earth it will rise above the heavier gases of nitrogen and oxygen that make up our atmosphere. It does appear in the earths atmosphere in trace quantities, but the majority will escape earths gravitation pull and dissipate into space.
Is helium poisenous?
No however the lack of oxygen is deadly. It is unlikely that you will hurt yourself sucking the helium out of balloons, as long as you breathe oxygen in between breaths of helium. There is a small percentage of helium (.0005%) in the earths atmosphere.
The most abundant inert gas is what?
Argon, in the earths atmoshere Helium in the universe Argon in the earths atmoshere Helium in the universe
