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What is the main reason why the percentages of gasses in the atmosphere are different from the percentages of gasses that are dissolved in the ocean?
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The solubility of each gas in water is different.
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What substance is least plentiful in the atmosphere?
At 0.3%, carbon dioxide is the least common gas in the Earth's atmosphere. This is in no way indicative of its lack of importance, since carbon dioxide is the primary source of life on earth and its concentration on earth's pre-industrial atmosphere has been regulated by photosynthetic organisms and is a principle supplier of greenhouse gases.
What are the most common gasses?
Nitrogen, Oxygen,Hydrogen, and Carbon Di-oxide are the common Gases in the Atmosphere.
How astronomers can identify the gasses found in a planet's atmosphere explain?
It's by analzying the spectrum of light reflected off the planet, through a method called spectroscopy. Different elements absorb light energy at different wavelengths, and re-emit light at specific, well-characterized wavelengths. By analyzing the light reflected off a planet, scientists can work out the most abundant elements in its atmosphere.
Why countries that do not produce acid rain still can suffter from it?
Because the gasses that eventually cause acid rain are everywhere in the atmosphere and clouds. As wind patterns move over the earth, they carry these gasses everywhere they go. The rain falls where it will. The acid rain gasses could come from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
What was your atmosphere like before oxygen became abundant?
Mostly nitrogen and carbon dioxide, with lots of sulfa gasses as trace (plus water vapor).
Is the atmosphere a chemical?
No. The atmosphere is a mixture of different gasses.
What does the atmosphere of the jovian planets consist of?
they all have different gasses in there atmosphere
List the primary constituents of earth's atmosphere including appropriate percentages?
-Nitrogen 78.09% -Oxygen 20.95% -Argon 0.039% - Trace Gasses <1%
What are the three most abundant gasses in earth's atmosphere and their percentages?
These gases are: nitrogen (78,084 %), oxygen (20,9476 %), argon (0,934 %), carbon dioxide (0,0314).
The mixture of gasses that surround the earth?
Atmosphere. It is a mixture of gasses that surrounds the earth.
What is in the atmosphere of earth?
it is made up of many different gasses , depending on where you live.
What is in the Earth atmosphere?
it is made up of many different gasses , depending on where you live.
What are the different gasses that are found in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and methane.
Why is the atmosphere best described as a mixture of gases?
Because the atmosphere is composed of several different gasses that are fairly uniformly mixed together. The atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen with innumerable numbers of other trace gasses.
What substance is least plentiful in the atmosphere?
At 0.3%, carbon dioxide is the least common gas in the Earth's atmosphere. This is in no way indicative of its lack of importance, since carbon dioxide is the primary source of life on earth and its concentration on earth's pre-industrial atmosphere has been regulated by photosynthetic organisms and is a principle supplier of greenhouse gases.
How the atmosphere does to earth?
It contains the ozone layer,different gasses,and to prevent direct rays from the sun.
How is the atmosphere different now than when if was first formed?
now it is being polluted by toxic gasses and carbon dioxide and tearing the atmosphere apart
